When Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, bald, beak-nosed former Chancellor of theAustrian Republic, sets out to upset a cabinet he succeeds. Last week this most potent of Austrian politicians was, characteristically, in Oslo, Norway, when the Austrian cabinet he has been working on all summer actually fell.
On the face of things it merely seemed that several of aristocratic, van dyke-bearded Chancellor Johann Schober’s cabinet members had quarreled with him one by one, had one by one resigned. Decisive was the resignation last week of Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Defense Carl Vaugoin, Seipel disciple and lay leader of the clerical party (Christian So-cialists). His reason: refusal by Chancellor Schober to countenance the appointment as President of the Austrian State Railways of another Seipel disciple, Herr Strafella.
With too many props kicked out from under them, Chancellor Schober and his remaining cabinet ministers resigned. Soon afterward, Monsignor Seipel was announced at Oslo to have taken airplane for Vienna. Meanwhile President Wilhelm Miklas of Austria had asked Seipel Disciple Vaugoin to try and form a cabinet.
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