AUSTRIA: Sultana

Two great, sad eyes of liquid, melting brown turned last week in mute reproach upon the President of Austria, good Dr. Michael Hainisch, kindly, snowy-bearded and well beloved.

The brown eyes were those of Bella, a Swiss cow who is the pet & pride of President Hainisch. For years she has been the bovine sultana of his model dairy farm in Lower Austria. Cartoonists draw the President in company with Bella more often than they picture him alone. Yet last week Dr. Hainisch took firmly away from Bella with his own hand a small...

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