Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anticipate was the fierce bravery of the Socialist defense and the effect it would have on the foreign popularity of little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. The final outcome was never in doubt, but for nearly 48 hours determined Socialists actually had the upper hand in Linz and Steyr (Austria's Detroit). For a brief time even the Heimwehr commander, theatrical Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, was surrounded. Victorious at last and with a handful of bedraggled prisoners, he announced magnanimously...
...natural common sense of Vienna police saved the lives of six prisoners who had been picked up in the streets, sentenced to be hanged "within three hours." Word reached Austria's Christian Socialist President Dr. Wilhelm Miklas, silent at his home all through the days of bloodshed, that the evidence against them was slight. But time was passing. At the end of three hours the policemen turned the clock back, sent out for coffee with whipped cream. Soon up rushed the State's Attorney, waving reprieves like the warden in a melodrama. "Thank...
Bratislava. All through the fighting, leader of the Socialist forces was dumpy Dr. Julius Deutsch, Minister of War in Austria's first Republican Cabinet and ancient adversary of her Catholic Chancellor, the late great Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. The New York Times's sympathetic G. E. R. Gedye found him safe at Bratislava, just over the Czechoslovak border, guarded by a cordon of Czech Socialists from attempted assassination. A ricocheted bullet in his left eye left Dr. Deutsch so blind that he could only see the outline of objects. He was sick, exhausted, but eager to talk...
...will answer no questions that will endanger my comrades in Austria," said he, "The hangman is busy enough as it is. . . . But if you must have a story of a romantic retreat, tell that of the 47 Republican defense corps men who fought their way all the way from Vienna to the Czechoslovak frontier and marched triumphantly across the border carrying their machine guns and rifles which they surrendered at the first village they entered...
Nazis. All this time not one peep had come from the Nazis, the real spider at the centre of Austria's web of worries. Their tactics were to say nothing and do nothing until the Heimwehr had finished for them the messy job of cleaning up Socialism. Then they hoped to rally the disgruntled of all parties to the Swastika. The famed Nazi radio station in Munich that has been the bane of the Dollfuss Government for more than a year led off the campaign with a scornful speech by pale, spectacled Theodor Habicht, Nazi "Inspector General for Austria...