Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tyrol too comes Franz Hofer, an Austrian Nazi. No friend of the Habsburgs, eager to see his country absorbed by Ger- many, Nazi Hofer unwittingly added 8,000 men to the little Austrian Army, and brought the active support of France and Britain to the struggling government of Engelbert Dollfuss...
Assistance. Hofer, Weber and Lessing were just what the Dollfuss Government needed to point up the Hitler menace to the peace of Europe, and it used them to the hilt. Quickly came the little Chan- cellor's reward. Worried Italy, France, Britain gave Austria permission to increase her regular army of 22,000 men to 30,000, the full strength allowed under the Treaty of St. Germain, "as long as the special conditions exist." as long as Adolf Hitler is Chancellor of Germany. Permission included a good deal more than adding another 8,000 men to Austria...
Benito Mussolini provided the bacon. Until the middle of last week Chancellor Dollfuss would let out no specific word of what occurred last fortnight when II Duce, in a dripping bathing suit, sat in a rowboat with him beyond the beach at Riccione (TIME, Aug. 28). He would only smile rosily at Hearst Correspondent Karl von Wiegand...
...came the news: Italy was willing to back the Dollfuss Government to the following extent...
...Italy's north from a French invasion through the mountain passes and along the seacoast. The Fascist militia was mobilized, acting in reserve for the regular troops. In the field too were little King Victor Emmanuel and Il Duce, who hurried over from his conference with Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria fortnight ago (results of which were announced last week) to establish headquarters at Garessio...