AUSTRIA: Death for Freedom

The dire presentiment which caused devout little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss to send his young wife and chubby children away to Italy with the words "You will be safe where you are going" (TIME, July 23) was fulfilled last week by a grisly and relentless fate.

On the tragic afternoon Frau Alwine Dollfuss, safe at Riccione on the Adriatic as the house guest of Donna Rachele Mussolini, showed her babies, Rudolf and Eva, how to make sand pies. She had taken them in to supper and put them sleepily to bed before she learned...

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