Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Imperial Palace. Hemmed in by glittering buttons and braid and feathers of the entire diplomatic corps, sat enthroned three scarlet-robed Cardinals and their Brother-in-God the Papal Legate from Rome. Bands played, a choir sang Schubert's Deutsche Messe and, grave with emotion, little Chancellor Dollfuss stepped forward and laid a wreath at the ornate bronze equestrian statue to Prince Eugene of Savoy, who helped defend Vienna...
...celebration, last of a series that has been going on all summer, was officially to celebrate the 250th anniversary of that victory. Everyone in the crowd, and all Europe, knew that it celebrated another, more immediate victory for the Dollfuss Government. While choir boys shrilled Schubert's mass, only a few blocks away a number of disgruntled young Nazis under police guard were on their hands & knees, picking up one by one paper swastikas that they had scattered in the streets. This was the first crow of triumph that the Dollfuss Government has permitted itself since its struggle against...
...Siege-From the beginning of his administration, when Naziism held the sympathy of about 50% of the Austrian people, it has been the strategy of Chancellor Dollfuss to fight the lush promises of Adolf Hitler with a revival of Austrian patriotism. It was not an easy job. Austria has a colorful, scarcely a' glorious history. She never won a war without the assistance of powerful allies. The Habsburg Emperors gained at various times control of over half Europe by the practical but not very inspiring habit of marrying heiresses, but there was one time when Austria was truly great...
...250th anniversary of that siege was just what the Dollfuss Government needed. A great memorial exhibition was set up in Vienna's Belvedere Palace, full of hats, gloves, maps, swords and other relics of Prince Eugene and Count von Starhemberg. Colored prints and picture books were issued. In mountain villages prizes were given for Austrian peasant costumes. Orators made speeches. And it worked. Week by week, hundreds of serious young Austrians who had felt that the only hope for their country was immediate political and economic union with Germany, have felt increasing affection for their own red-&-white-striped...
...rumor that an army of 8,000 Austrian Nazi exiles had massed on the Bavarian side of the frontier. The rumor crackled through Innsbruck, then spread with mounting terror through the Tyrol, through all Austria, that war had begun, the Nazi invasion was under way. From Vienna, Chancellor Dollfuss, delighted with his little war scare, announced that the maneuvers were merely the usual autumn field practice. He did not add that little Austria, which has just received official permission to increase its little army from 22,000 to 30,000 men, had last week 40,000 armed...