Kurt Schuschnigg боролся против аншлюза Австрии до последнего. В описываемом инциденте погибла его жена и исчез портфель, который она везла. В портфеле был компромат на Гитлера. Kurt Schuschnigg до 1945 года сидел в концлагере.


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Schuschnigg Narrowly Escapes Death in Motor Accident Which Kills
Wife, Injures Son and Three Others; Starhemberg "Stands By"
Trade-Pact Signed
Russo-American One-Year Commercial
Treaty Reached
xxustria experienced a political crisis on
July 13, when Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, Federal
Chancellor, narrowly escaped death
when his automobile struck a tree near
Linz, Upper Austria, under unexplained
circumstances—almost a year after his
predecessor, Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss, Was
assassinated.
Doctor Schuschnigg's thirty-four-yearold
wife was instantly killed; his nine-
Prince Starhemberg
year-old son, Kurt, as well as a nurse, detective,
and chauffeur, were injured; the
accident was ascribed to a defective steering-
wheel, which, some mechanics thought,
had been tampered with. The Linz police
doubted there had been sabotage, but sent
the wreckage to Vienna for examination.
The Chancellor, pale, white-haired despite
his thirty-eight years, was hurled
clear of the smashed machine, suffering
only shock. With his family he was en
route from Vienna to St. Gilgen, where he
planned to rest after a hard year in office.
Austria Is Shocked
News of the accident shocked the nation,
and, for a time, caused much uneasiness
among officials. President Wilhelm Miklas
immediately convoked a meeting of Ministers
still in the capital, and sent a special
air-plane to fetch Doctor Schuschnigg's
close friend. Prince Ernst Rtidiger von
Starhemberg, the Vice-Chancellor, who was
in Venice.
Maj. Emil Fey, Minister of the Interior
and Special Commissar for Security
Measures, also was hurriedly summoned
from Carinthia. Meanwhile, the Vienna
police stood in readiness to crush disorder.
For some time there were rumors that
the Heimwehr (Home Guard), powerful
political factor, commanded by Prince
Starhemberg, would attempt to seize power.
and eliminate the Chancellorship. The
Nazis, too, Vienna reported, started a
whispering campaign, spreading talk that
Doctor Schuschnigg was dead.
The capital remained calm, waiting the
arrival of the Vice-Chancellor, delayed because
of fog. He greeted the grief-stricken
Chancellor at the station the next day,
shortly after taking over temporary control
of the Government.
Building N e w Nation
Prince Starhemberg's role in modern
Austria was brilliantly delineated in a special
article written in the June 8 issue of
THE LITERARY DIGEST by Mohammed Essad-
Bey, Russian-born fighter and author.
"After the disturbances of last year,
Prince von Starhemberg, together with his
friend. Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, is rebuilding
a new Austria," he wrote. "These
two are resolved to preserve their country's
political independence under all circumstances.
"No matter how insignificant present-day
Austria may appear to the outsider, this
little country is tremendously important so
far as the maintenance of European peace,
or the outbreak of a new world war, is
concerned.
"To-day, it is exclusively in Prince Starhembeirg's
hands that the vital decision
rests, whether the weight and the fate of
Austria be thrown into one or the other
scale balancing international equilibrium."
At Linz, before Doctor Schuschnigg began
the sad journey by special train to
Vienna with the body of his wife, his
spiritual adviser, Mgr. Matzinger, stated
the Chancellor would
continue the active
leadership of the Austrian
Fascist Government.
D o c t o r Schuschnigg,
general's son
and lawyer, is a
protege of the late
Chancellor Ignaz Seipel.
Ardent believer
in the restoration of
the Hapsburgs, he
formed the Catholic
Storm Troopers, who
aided the Federal
Army and Heimwehr
in crushing Socialist
and Nazi revolts.
Little A u s t r ia
found complications
abroad to enhance
her worries. Nicholas
Titulescu, Rumanian
Foreign Minister, announced
that Rumania,
Yugoslavia,
Czechoslovakia would
Chancellor mobilize if the Haps-
Schuschnigg burgs were restored.
O'rn July 12 the United States and Russia,
which broke off trade-negotiations last fall,
reputedly over the old Russian debt and
loan questions, signed a one-year commercial
agreement.
It was signed by Ambassador William C.
Bullitt and Foreign Commissar Maxim M.
Litvinoff, in Moscow, and came as a complete
surprize to Washington observers.
Under the agreement, which can be renewed
indefinitely, Russia is expected to
buy 130,000,000 worth of goods during the
coming year. The United States, too, will
increase her purchases.
The text of the pact does not mention the
amount of these, but, last year, American
exports to Russia were $15,913,000, while
Soviet imports to the United States
amounted to $12,709,000.
Negotiations were concluded under the
United States Tariff Act of 1934, which empowers
the President to conclude tradeagreements
containing tariff-concessions.
Belgium, Brazil, and Czechoslov^ikia also
have signed such treaties, which are Executive
documents not requiring Senate confirmation.
"In return for the assurance of the Soviet
Government that it will be its policy to increase
substantially its purchases of American
products," said a statement by Ambassador
Bullitt, "the United States is prepared
to extend to the Soviet Union tariffconcessions
granted in trade-agreements to
other countries."
The Ambassador pointed out that during
the l^st three years Russian purchases
in the United States had averaged only
$12,000,000. According to a dispatch to
the New York Times by Harold Denny, df
its Moscow Bureau, the real significance
of the trade-deal is "the fact that it breaks
the ice."
Much of the Russia-bound exports are
expected to be railway-equipment, trucks,
and air-plane motors. In 1930, in the
midst of the Five-Year Plan, Russian exports
reached the peak under the Soviet
regime — $114,000,000. Exports to the
United States have consisted, for the most
part, of furs, coal, manganese, and ores.
Dreyfus, Hero of Drama, Dies
JLiieut.-Col. Alfred Dreyfus, who died in
Paris on July 12, at seventy-five, was the
central figure in one of the most sensational
dramas of modern times.
An Alsatian Jew, he went to Paris to
study for the Army. His rise was rapid.
Captain at thirty, he was sent to the French
General Staff as a probationer, first of his
race to be so honored.
On October 15, 1894, he was accused of
high treason. He was sent to Devil's Island,
returned to face a new trial.
Again found guilty, Dreyfus was sentenced
to ten years, then pardoned.