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...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...
Totally unready to die, Chancellor Dollfuss was last week busily stuffing up the chinks in his ''Patriotic Front" coalition against Naziism. Already head of the army, police and gendarmerie, he took over the headship of Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg's "White Fascist" Heimwehr. In payment he made Prince von Starhemberg deputy chairman of the Patriotic Front. Thus he prevented the hot-headed Prince from going off half-cocked and had the Heimwehr men to help him break any strikes the Socialists may call. He dissolved the Socialist singing society, the Sängerbund...
...Mohammed IV made a last attempt to conquer Western Europe. An army of 400,000 men swept into Hungary and across the Danube to camp under the gates of Vienna. They never got inside. Vienna's defenses were in the hands of a peruked gallant, Count Rüdiger von Starhemberg, who had under him a man destined to be one of the world's great generals, Prince Eugene of Savoy. Again the victory was not truly Austria's. What sent the Turkish legions pell mell back across the plains of Hungary was the arrival...
Starhemberg. Of the thousands who have rallied round Chancellor Dollfuss, three men are important. Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, a smooth-cheeked, smiling young man, has the same name, the same temperament as his ancestor who led the defense of Vienna in 1683. An out-&-out Fascist, he has spent most of his great fortune founding, drilling, equipping the Heimwehr that is now the backbone of the Dollfuss Government. Once a friend of Adolf Hitler, he fought beside him in the Munich "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923, broke away when he suddenly realized that Handsome Adolf was committed...
...into the Government some Nazi leader willing to accept the principle of absolute Austrian independence. The second was to abandon the Austrian Constitution and form a Fascist State on the Italian model. This would get the support of the Catholics and the Heimwehr whose leader Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg last week returned from a visit to Benito Mussolini. Third choice was to furbish up the present "Austria Over All" coalition of the Christian Socialists, the Fascist Heimwehr and the Agrarian League with the half-hearted support of the Socialists. Last week Dollfuss met long & late with...