AUSTRIA: Mother's Helper

Fortnight ago Ernst Riidiger Prince von Starhemberg, 37, was Vice Chancellor of Austria, leader of the potent Heimwehr, friend of Benito Mussolini and, to a great extent, dictator of his trouble-tossed little country. Last week the same young man was ignominiously booted out as Vice Chancellor, his private army was ordered disbanded and he lost the leadership of the Fatherland Front. Angry and vengeful at this sudden turn of affairs, he went to the Vienna South Station, entrained for Rome. Scarcely had his train pulled out than the final insult fell: by...

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