Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Adolf Hitler stung Austria's Chancellor Engelbert ("Millimetter-nich"*) Dollfuss with a 1,000-mark visa charge for Germans entering Austria. Smarting, Dollfuss considered slapping back with a tariff wall against German goods that would have hurt both Germany and Austria. Instead, giving gentle tit for brutal tat, he restored the five-schilling visa charge for Austrians going to Ger- many, forbade any to do so except for urgent business reasons. Then he turned back to the serious business of fighting the Nazi pox within Austria...
Austria's little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss last week fought on, lone effective champion against seeping German Naziism whose cells are sprouting not only in Austria, but Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the German minorities of Jugoslavia and Rumania. To his aid unintentionally came Germany's Adolf Hitler. Affronted by Dollfuss' slap last fortnight to Nazi Envoy Hans Frank. Hitler countered last week with a 1,000-mark ($272.50) visa charge for Germans visiting Austria. This was a $3,000,000 slap to Austria's tourist business. But it squelched patriotic Austrians who have wanted a Middle European combine...
Sticking out his small square jaw, Dollfuss last, week took pains to tell New York Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall that he planned to fight to the finish against both "brown Bolshevism and red Bolshevism. ... A curious and impressive result of the Hitlerite propaganda here has been to awaken a distinctive Austrian national spirit. . . . Every time the word 'Austria' is mentioned it now evokes a cheer. . . . We would like Austria to exist as an object lesson to the world of German culture . . . that is not a menace but an inspiration...
None of this pleased Hitler. Last week the first repercussion to the scene at the landing field came with a sharp protest from Hitler to Dollfuss. Without delay Dollfuss snapped back that Hitler's man would do well to apologize for the "Turk"' speech in Vienna before Austria could reconsider its brusqueness to him. Police caught up with Frank and friends, busy on a haranguing tour of Austrian Nazi groups. They were told to leave Austria "rapidly." Then Dollfuss ordered 100 other German Nazis deported. He had already had 2,380 Austrian Nazis arrested for bombarding the Heimwehr...
...Dollfuss' problem last week lay in the alignment of three potent Austrian parties, backed by three foreign governments: the Christian Socialist, backed by France; the Heimatblock (Heimwehr), backed by Italy; the National Socialists, backed by Germany. Dollfuss does not want the National Socialists (Nazis); he can count on the Christian Socialist (government) party; he needs the Heimwehr too, now holding the balance of power. His wearing of the Jager uniform was romantic bait for the patriotic Heimwehr. More bait was dangled in the rumor that the Austrian Army will soon shuck its dull German field-grey, re-emerge...