Darkly and deviously the secret struggle between Catholic Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg and Fascist Vice Chancellor Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg for control of the Austrian Cabinet continued last week amid smoking newspaper headlines. Prince von Starhemberg started matters off last month by waiting until Chancellor Schuschnigg was in Italy to crack wide open the scandal of the failure of Jewish-controlled Vienna Phoenix Life Insurance Co. His plain purpose in smearing this $150.000,000 bankruptcy through the Press was to whip up anti-Semitism in Vienna, cause a Cabinet crisis that would allow...
AUSTRIA: Scandalous Phönix-Wien
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