Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian reception in Geneva last week an excited Englishwoman plunged down upon little Chancellor Dollfuss and fervently grasped his hand...
...address, attendants agreed that not since the oratorical pinwheels of the late Aristide Briand had a League audience given such an ovation. From the front row even handsome German Foreign Minister von Neurath started to clap until nudged into silence by beady-eyed Nazi Paul Joseph Goebbels. Said Chancellor Dollfuss...
...General Karl Vaugoin from the Ministry of Defense to the Directorship of the State Railways; and the shifting of the Heimwehr's hard-hitting Major Fey from the Ministry of Public Security to the Vice Chancellorship. Agrarian Winkler was shelved for his growing opposition to the entire Dollfuss program. General Vaugoin (generally credited with rebuilding the Austrian army), for listening too sympathetically to offers of Socialist aid. If Austria must have a dictator, Engelbert Dollfuss was determined...
...sense the new set-up was a victory for Vice Chancellor Fey. Loving authority but hating responsibility, his tactics right along have been subtly to force Chancellor Dollfuss to do the things that Fey would do were he Chancellor. Austria's grey-jacketed private army, the Heimwehr, is divided into three groups. One part, under former Governor Anton Rintelen of Styria, is so frankly pro-Nazi that the Governor was hastily made Ambassador to Italy a few weeks ago. The rest are divided in allegiance between Prince von Starhemberg (founder but now only nominally leader of the entire Heimwehr...
...such camps set up near Vienna, one at Wollersdorff, the other at Bruck an der Leitha. Nazis and "persons against whom well-grounded suspicion exists that they are preparing for or assisting in treasonable actions," will not only be interned there, but must pay their own keep. Chancellor Dollfuss ignored Vice Chancellor Fey's doings but bristled up in Geneva when Austria's Habsburg pretender, handsome 20-year-old Archduke Otto, son of the late Austrian Emperor Karl, made a bid for restoration. In letters to three Austrian towns which conferred honorary citizenship on him last week...