Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna the task of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg's new Government was not made any easier by his Minister of Interior, rough and imperious Major Emil Fey, long the stormy petrel of Austrian politics. Testifying at the trial of two of the 144 Nazis who seized Chancellor Dollfuss and himself in the Ballhaus fortnight ago, Major Fey changed his previous account of the dying Chancellor's last words...
Instead of "Settle this with as little bloodshed as possible," Dr. Dollfuss said, according to Major Fey last week, "Let there be no blood. Rintelen must make peace...
Since the object of the Nazis had been to make Dr. Anton Rintelen, "King Anton" of Nazi Styria, their Chancellor, this was as much as to say that Chancellor Dollfuss had yielded at his last gasp to the Nazi solution...
...Rudolf, the chubby children of murdered Engelbert Dollfuss, still thought last week that their father was alive. Safe at the Italian beach resort of Riccione in the villa of Dictator Mussolini's sympathetic spouse, they went down to the station with Donna Rachele Mussolini to meet their mother as she returned from-the State funeral in Vienna (TIME...
Testifying further, Major Fey gave the lie to the new Government's claim that Dr. Schuschnigg did not know the Nazis had killed Dollfuss when he promised them safe conduct to Germany, a promise which the Government failed to keep "on the ground that it was conditional on the Ballhaus being evacuated without the death of anyone within." Three times under cross-examination Major Fey stubbornly repeated, "The promise was made without conditions of any kind after those who made it knew that the Chancellor was dead. I repeatedly insisted that this promise should be kept...