Martin Edwards

Merritt Mullen wrote:
> In article <4849751e$0$4968$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com >,
> David Nebenzahl <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:
>
>> On 6/6/2008 5:33 AM Peter T. Daniels spake thus:
>>
>>> On Jun 6, 12:45 am, David Nebenzahl <nob...@but.us.chickens> wrote:
>> >
>>>> On 6/5/2008 8:27 PM Peter T. Daniels spake thus:
>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 5, 2:32 pm, "Bernie Kovack" <berniekovac...m> wrote:
>>>>>> "bobgnote" <bobgn...@> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:ba67a1e7-2a91-4f98-9f82-aff7ee927f34@y22g2000prd..com...
>
>>>>>> Remember what happened the last time an Austrian seized power?
>>>>> Kurt Waldheim was no Boutros Galli or Kofi Annan, but he wasn't a
>>>>> terrible Secretary General.
>>>> And of course we all remember that coup where he forced his way in as
>>>> head of the U.N. ...
>>> You don't think he was picked at random, do you? No more than Pope
>>> Ratzinger was selected purely via divine guidance.
>> Of course he wasn't picked at random, but there's a rather large
>> distance between "not picked at random" and "seized power", wouldn't you
>> say?
>
> I thought the reference to the "last time an Austrian seized power"
> referred to that fellow in Germany in the 1930s.
>
> Merritt

I think it was, but it was a bit more complicated than that. He was
appointed by the President, a Prussian aristocrat, using his emergency
powers. The traditional conservatives though they could control him.

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