Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salzburg. Austria...
...Austria's little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss last week fought on, lone effective champion against seeping German Naziism whose cells are sprouting not only in Austria, but Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the German minorities of Jugoslavia and Rumania. To his aid unintentionally came Germany's Adolf Hitler. Affronted by Dollfuss' slap last fortnight to Nazi Envoy Hans Frank. Hitler countered last week with a 1,000-mark ($272.50) visa charge for Germans visiting Austria. This was a $3,000,000 slap to Austria's tourist business. But it squelched patriotic Austrians who have wanted a Middle European combine...
...pains to tell New York Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall that he planned to fight to the finish against both "brown Bolshevism and red Bolshevism. ... A curious and impressive result of the Hitlerite propaganda here has been to awaken a distinctive Austrian national spirit. . . . Every time the word 'Austria' is mentioned it now evokes a cheer. . . . We would like Austria to exist as an object lesson to the world of German culture . . . that is not a menace but an inspiration...
Against the German Nazi racket across the border. Austria's little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss last week stoutly turned his bottle-shaped back, tried to stuff his ears. A special Hitler propagandist had come to Austria: Bavarian Minister of Justice Hans Frank, with two colleagues. When the three stepped from their plane last fortnight on a Vienna landing field, a police official told them they were "not very desirable." Nevertheless, Dollfuss permitted them to speak non-politically to 30,000 Austrian Nazis at a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the delivery of Vienna from the Turks.* The audience soon...
None of this pleased Hitler. Last week the first repercussion to the scene at the landing field came with a sharp protest from Hitler to Dollfuss. Without delay Dollfuss snapped back that Hitler's man would do well to apologize for the "Turk"' speech in Vienna before Austria could reconsider its brusqueness to him. Police caught up with Frank and friends, busy on a haranguing tour of Austrian Nazi groups. They were told to leave Austria "rapidly." Then Dollfuss ordered 100 other German Nazis deported. He had already had 2,380 Austrian Nazis arrested for bombarding the Heimwehr...