Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna last week Chancellor Dollfuss' official Wiener Zeitung stirred up a hornet's nest of official German denial by printing that Old Paul had just undergone a rejuvenation operation...
Spunky little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who rules Austria amid the incessant banging of Nazi bombs, heard himself flayed by radio from Munich last week as a coward...
...Dollfuss has more than once been faced by treachery in his own ranks but he smoothes things over by the cowardly method of compromise. How much more admirable was the method of Adolf Hitler! Der Führer has crushed the rebels and it is our duty to tell the Austrian people what a mess he has cleaned...
Whatever Austria's destiny, the Dollfuss Government got a fresh dose of Nazi terrorism last week. In the marble hall of the Provincial Government Building at Salzburg a bomb went off outside the door of the Provincial Director of Public Safety, blowing a great hole in the wall. In Vienna $5,000 damage to the famed City Hall resulted from a terrorist fire brand...
Shocked British editors deplored Adolf Hitler's "gangster methods." Only head of a foreign state to comment was spry little Chancellor of Austria Engelbert Dollfuss, an extremely devout Catholic. "Does it not now become apparent," he observed piously, "that when one leaves the path of Christian thought, the path of Justice, one enters a path of Error from which there is no turning back? . . . Does not the light at last dawn upon us that one can not make a people happy with violence...