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AUSTRIA: Dollfuss Joker

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In their first flush of sympathy for the buxom young widow of murdered Chancellor Dollfuss, the new Austrian Government gave her a pension, understood to be for life. Last week Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, devout, severe and thrifty, let Austrians know that if the Widow Dollfuss marries again her pension stops.

Protected in any case are the chubby Dollfuss children, Rudolf and Eva. On the death or remarriage of their mother they will receive half her pension until they are 21.

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