Kurt Schussnigg

Kurt Schussnigg or Schuschnigg (b. 1897) was Austria-Hungary's ambassador to the United States in the years leading up to the Second Great War. On Rememberance Day, 1941, as the Entente was regaining its power, Schussnigg gave what was viewed as a "ferocious", but incomprehensible, speech. Presumably, the content of that speech was a reaffirmation Austria-Hungary's alliance with Germany and the United States, much like the speech his German counter-part, Ambassador Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, gave.