Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austria last week was like a man who begins to sniffle, wonders whether he is catching cold. In Vienna there were undeniable sniffles of Hitlerism. Under banners reading EIN VOLK-EIN REICH! ("One People-One Nation!") a crowd of 20,000 Viennese National Socialists (Nazis) gathered to cheer their leader, Herr Alfred Frauenfeld, as he roared: "Not Engelbert Dollfuss but Adolf Hitler is our Chancellor...
...contrary, famed "Little Dollfuss" (4 ft. 11 in.), whose friends compare him to "Little Corporal" Napoleon, was very much Chancellor of Austria last week, and doing his best to cure the Hitlerite sniffles before they should become political pneumonia. Rumors reached Vienna that some of the frontier posts dividing Austria and Germany had been pulled up in the night. Anything might happen. The fact that Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany is by birth an Austrian increased the danger that Austrian Nazis might be able to seize the Government, helped (according to further rumors) by 60,000 German Nazis supposed...
...qualify as a dictator, "Little Dollfuss" had sat up with his Cabinet until 1a. m., at which hour he issued a decree stating that Austria was without a parliament,* from which it followed that the Chancellor was supreme. This was confirmed by President Miklas of Austria who received "Little Dollfuss" in the wee hours, endorsed what he had done and went through the formality of refusing to accept a resignation which Dictator Dollfuss proffered, then repocketed...
Meanwhile another draft on "Little Dollfuss' " stiff neck was the rumor sweeping through Austria, that the 2O-year-old Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the throne, was either in the country or on the Swiss frontier, waiting for a call. Three newspapers were promptly suppressed for hinting at the story in print...
Europe has unmistakably taken on the aspect of a powder barrel. Divided as it is, into two main camps, it would need only a reckless move to precipitate a general conflict. France, Poland, and the Little Entente of Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Jugoslavia are ranged against Germany, Austria, and Hungary, with Italy and England relatively unknown factors. The recent Arms Shipment incident would seem to place Italy with Austria, and England with France. In such a case, the preponderance of France and her allies would be so marked as to make the result a foregone conclusion. Economically, the Central European powers...