Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Linz, Austria, hundreds of witnesses were found who had seen a plane from Germany swoop down and drop leaflets containing Nazi threats against the Austrian Government of small, defiant Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss...
...fight on Dollfuss," read Austrians who picked up these leaflets, "will assume whatever form and employ whatever weapons deemed necessary to achieve the goal...
...position as a diplomat had not only long been accepted but he was in addition a Catholic priest. No Austrian bombs have burst in Berlin, but German police promptly called at his house with a warrant. Dr. Wasserback hopped out of bed, picked up the telephone, called Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in London...
When Nazi policemen threatened to kick the door down Dr. Wasserback submitted to arrest. In London Millimetternich-Dollfuss made protest to the Chief German Delegate and arranged for another formal protest from the Papal Nuncio in Berlin. Then, sure of the world's sympathy, he went back to bed. Dr. Wasser-back was released in a few hours, ordered from the country. Embarrassed Nazis ordered the German Press to suppress all mention of his arrest...
Chancellor Dollfuss gave British sympathy for his brave fight against Naziism no chance to cool. Dr. Wasserback was transferred to London, where Britons could see him, hear him. Chancellor Dollfuss ended his opening address to the Conference with a quotation from Schiller: "The best man cannot live in peace if his wicked neighbors will not leave him in peace." Delegates cheered. To a U. S. reporter he added...