Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in Vienna the Dollfuss government was warily picking its way from crisis to crisis. Dissatisfaction of the powerful Heimwehr was settled fortnight ago when Heimwehr Leader Prince von Starhemberg announced that the tentative outline of the new Dollfuss "corporative state" was acceptable to him. Last week the Heimwehr announced its complete absorption in the Dollfuss "Patriotic Front" and its own dissolution as a political party. "This makes the further existence of other parties unnecessary," read their announcement...
...good, but the next step brought the Dollfuss government smack up against a great and solid mass, the Socialists of Vienna. Viennese Socialists have tolerated, even aided, Engelbert Dollfuss because they know that much as he dislikes them they would receive even shorter shrift from a Nazi government. Last week Prince von Starhemberg shrilled at a Heimwehr meeting...
Nobody knows how many Nazis and pro-Nazis there are in Austria. Beyond the 60,000 uniformed Heimwehr men, estimates of the Heimwehr's political strength are equally uncertain. But 1,250,000 Socialists signed their names and addresses to a recent petition to Chancellor Dollfuss (TIME, Sept. 18) demanding the reconvening of Parliament and there are less than 7,000,000 souls in Austria...
Socialist spokesmen were brutally frank: "We tolerated Dollfuss because he was fighting the Nazis, but the actual result of the government's policy has been to strengthen the Nazi movement enormously. . . . Touch our City Hall and you touch off a general strike. Attempt a Habsburg restoration and you touch off an automatic civil...
...days later, after addressing a meeting of Christian Socialists, Chancellor Dollfuss on his way to his offices in Parliament Building was accosted by a youth. The boy handed a paper-apparently a petition-to a soldier guard. Then he stepped back, whipped out a revolver, fired two shots at the Chancellor. Doughty little Dollfuss staggered, then calmly walked to his automobile. Surgeons found one bullet in his shirt where it had bounced off a rib. The other had only scratched his arm. Safe and sound at home, the Chancellor prepared to make a radio broadcast that night. Meanwhile his assailant...