Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight of the actual attacking party were caught. Police raids throughout Austria netted scores more. Once again Italian troops on Brenner Pass were told to stand ready for any emergency. Object of the "futsched Putsch" was not to assassinate Prince von Starhemberg, who had returned empty-handed from Italy and was safely in Vienna, but to seize some of the munitions supposed to be hidden in his castle. It was a local Putsch and any smart Nazi might have guessed there were no guns at Waxenberg last week. Prince von Starhemberg has not yet disarmed his Heim-wehr...
...Newshawk John L. Spivak set out last year to peek under the lids of Europe's dictatorships. He had a glowing reputation as "America's greatest reporter" based on his books, Georgia Nigger and America Faces the Barricades. Partial to underdogs, he paid calls on Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia over a period of five months. Despite radical bias and E. Phillips Oppenheim sensationalism, his findings, published last week as Europe Under The Terror,* gave U. S. readers a good chance to size up both Europe's tyrants and the people they tyrannize...
...Austria, under a foreign-supported and schismatic dictatorship (see p. 20), is the only nation to produce underground rebels with a sense of humor. Their best joke: to distribute an official-looking notice on counterfeit police stationery warning the populace to defend itself against ordinary criminals because all the energies of the police were required to catch political criminals...
Fortnight ago Ernst Riidiger Prince von Starhemberg, 37, was Vice Chancellor of Austria, leader of the potent Heimwehr, friend of Benito Mussolini and, to a great extent, dictator of his trouble-tossed little country. Last week the same young man was ignominiously booted out as Vice Chancellor, his private army was ordered disbanded and he lost the leadership of the Fatherland Front. Angry and vengeful at this sudden turn of affairs, he went to the Vienna South Station, entrained for Rome. Scarcely had his train pulled out than the final insult fell: by order of bespectacled Federal Chancellor Kurt...
...also named Commander of Starhemberg's technically disbanded Heimwehr. For Vice Commander of the Vienna Heimwehr Chancellor Schuschnigg passed over the-fawning application of Major Emil Fey and picked Baron Alfonse de Kloss whose wife is a cousin of Archduke Otto, Habsburg Pretender to the throne of Austria...