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Where do the Nazis and their long-touted anschluss enter the picture? While Hitler has repeatedly persecuted German socialists, there is strong likelihood that many of the Austrian socialists will turn to the Swastika against Dollfuss. If Austrian Nazism gains a working majority in Austria, if Dollfuss can be overthrown, the anschluss is a foregone conclusion. Foreign armed intervention in such a case would be made considerably more difficult in this case than if Germany forced the anschluss by a repetition of 1866. Even in such an exigency, however, it is dubious, as Professor Langer says, if the people...
This is rendered more likely by the fact that there is really nothing the powers can do to prevent Nazilsm from establishing itself as the actual government in Austria, providing no attempt is made to achieve the Anschluss by actually joining the two countries together. If this should occur and a Nazi government be set up either by the Germans independently or with the aid of Dolifuss--nothing short of military occupation of the country could prevent the Austrian government from cooperating with Berlin in such a way as to make the Anschluss effective in all but name. Thus...
...attention which was once devoted solely to the Polish Corridor has, this year, shifted spasmodically but over more frequently to the Anschluss, a term which includes almost any sort of union between Germany and Austria. Europe has been losing many hours of sleep over this question, not simply as a subject for disinterested betting as to whether or not the merger would be effected, but because its completion would undoubtedly mean war. For despite nonchalant reports to the contrary, neither France nor Italy have the slightest intention of allowing the Anschluss...
...position which Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria occupies in this melange is critical and interesting. As the world knows, he is the nominal bulwark against the Anschluss and its proponents, the Nazis. Keyed up by a buoyant egoism which has led him to exploit his four feet eleven inches as a little Napoleon, and supported by considerable religious fervor, he has snatched at every straw to consolidate his position. To take the wind from Nazi sails, he has become a real dictator with actually Fascist principles, though professedly an amorphous Christian Socialism. How long will he last? That...
...indeterminate factor, and perhaps the decisive one, is the Socialist Party. How powerful it is, one has no exact way of telling; the last elections are all but forgotten. But it may be that it is the real defence against an Anschluss, for though the Socialists hate Dollfuss, they hate the Nazis, Austrian and German, even more, and have announced their readiness to proclaim a general strike, or at the worst, civil war, if any Nazi putsch is attempted. It would be odd indeed, though not improbable, if the Little Napoleon were kept in power by the party...