Word: agrarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Milo Reno's 1932 farm strike, also marked by rural scuffling and vituperative speechmaking, bedeviled the last days of President Hoover. His strike of last spring in Iowa was thrown out of stride in the general enthusiasm over the New Deal. But last week's agrarian trouble had the Administration worried. Sensing a discontent which smoldered deep, President Roosevelt looked about for means of starting a vigorous backfire...
...decide who is to be a privileged "peasant" and who a mere "farmer," the new decree sets up a vast Nazi bureau topped by an imposing Agrarian Supreme Court. Members of the new peasantry cannot be dispossessed for debt. Neither can their crops or goods of any sort be seized by private creditors. In the words of Chancellor Hitler's decree, "the peasantry are lifted out of the capitalist system...
...help him fight Hitlerism in Austria rushed their several ways back to their assorted parties (TIME, Sept. 25). Heimwehr Leader Prince von Starhemberg shouted that unless the Chancellor's projected "Christian Corporative State" turned out to be 100% Fascist he and his followers would refuse to support it. Agrarian Leader Franz Winkler, defender of democracy, cried, "We are not going to fight Naziism, merely to help Austro-Fascism into the saddle!" The famed "Dollfuss Front" seemed to be breaking up like the Yukon in April. At this juncture the vest-pocket Chancellor went to Church last week and prayed...
Beside the assumption of five portfolios by Millimetternich, the most important facts about the new Cabinet were the disappearance of Agrarian Leader Franz Winkler as Vice Chancellor; the shelving of old General Karl Vaugoin from the Ministry of Defense to the Directorship of the State Railways; and the shifting of the Heimwehr's hard-hitting Major Fey from the Ministry of Public Security to the Vice Chancellorship. Agrarian Winkler was shelved for his growing opposition to the entire Dollfuss program. General Vaugoin (generally credited with rebuilding the Austrian army), for listening too sympathetically to offers of Socialist...
Winkler. President of the Agrarian League that put Chancellor Dollfuss in office is Vice Chancellor Franz Winkler, leader of the Dollfuss' peasant adherents. Dr. Winkler and his followers join with the Heimwehr in opposing Naziism and Socialism, but they fear a permanent Fascist dictatorship for a special reason. The Heimwehr is an aristocratic institution, backed by Austria's great landowners. Should Austria's incessant crises ever end the Agrarian League would make the rights of peasant landowners its chief plank...