Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murderers of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in 1934, Nazis have been taught to believe that Cardinal Innitzer could have successfully interceded for the assassins before they were executed...
...attack on Shanghai. Crises began to come so fast, were reported so fully, speculated about so constantly, that they became horrifyingly familiar: a crisis over the League censure of Japan for seizing Manchukuo, followed by crises over the brief civil war in Austria, the assassinations of Dollfuss and of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, over the invasion of Ethiopia, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the civil war in Spain, the German seizure of Austria, the Russian-Japanese clash in the Far East, the menacing gestures of Hitler against Czecho-Slovakia-until at Munich the sequence of bluffs, threats, swift moves, force...
...soldiering, digging forts, making guns. Last week another batch of twelve papers went over the dam with an extra loud splash. Among them: the Berliner Tageblatt, once Germany's greatest liberal voice under exiled Editor Theodor Wolff; Kreuz-Zeitung, which Bismarck founded in 1848; the late Chancellor Dollfuss' Neue Freie Presse; the 236-year-old Wiener Zeitung...
...Kurt von Schuschnigg, the last Chancellor of independent Austria, exhumed the bodies of two predecessors, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel and Engelbert Dollfuss, and placed them in elaborate bronze sarcophagi at the Church of Christ the King, in Vienna. Last week the Nazis ordered the bodies reburied in their original graves. Official Nazi reason: "The public objects to seeing these coffins exhibited in a place of worship." Nazis forgot to mention that since the Anschluss the public has not been allowed to enter the crypt...
...funeral of the Austrian Chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, murdered by Nazi conspirators in 1934, hollow-eyed, handsome Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, delivered a eulogy. Cardinal Innitzer described the killing as the "crime of a heathenish political group," flatly declared that "those who after these events are still supporting the Nazis are excluding themselves from civilization." When, four years later, Nazi conquerors rolled into Vienna, His Eminence allowed the swastika to fly over St. Stephen's Cathedral, signed a pastoral letter urging Austrian Catholics to vote Nazi in the subsequent plebiscite...