ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND
PRINCE STARHEMBERG OPPOSITION TO HITLER (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received July 30, 11 a.m.) LONDON, July 29 It is announced that Prince Starhemberg has arrived in England. Prince Rudiger Starhemberg, an Austrian aristocrat, was one of Hit-
ler’s early followers. He left the Nazis in 1923 and became leader of the reactionary but anti-Nazi “Heimwehr” (Home Defence) volunteers in Austria, fought Socialists in February and Nazis in July, 1934. He supported the Dollfuss and Schuschnigg regimes and favoured the restoration of the Hapsburg monarchy. • He fled to Switzerland when Germany annexed Austria in 1938, and at the outbreak of the present war he went to France to organise an Austrian Legion to fight Germany.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21178, 30 July 1940, Page 5
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118ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21178, 30 July 1940, Page 5
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