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...Frau Dollfuss, the widow of the murdered Chancellor, while loyal French friends kept saying she had escaped northward to Czechoslovakia under the personal escort of the French Minister, actually escaped southward to Hungary, reached Budapest in safety...
They burst into the Chancellery at Vienna, found the still-stained yellow sofa upon which Chancellor Dollfuss slowly bled to death after Nazi assassins had pumped him full of lead (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), draped it triumphantly last week with the Nazi swastika flag...
...just entering upon negotiations through diplomatic channels with Chamberlain and already on an Axis with Hitler (TIME, Nov. 2, 1936), was "in these circumstances" not again going to mobilize Italian troops along the frontier of Austria as he did in 1934 after the Nazi assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss...
...rising young lawyer and Catholic politician, Dr. Schuschnigg had become Minister of Education and Justice by May 1, 1934, the date on which diminutive Austrian Chancellor Engelbert ("Millimetternich") Dollfuss formed his Christian Authoritarian State. It was said of Dr. Schuschnigg that he had come with "clean hands" through the welter of financial scandals involving many Austrian politicians since the War. So had Dollfuss, for that matter. Nobody thought of the Minister of Education and Justice as a future Austrian Chancellor-until he happened not to be with Dollfuss and most of the Cabinet on the day Nazi assassins captured...
...Good Germans." As Chancellor in succession to his murdered friend Dollfuss, Kurt von Schuschnigg saw 13 Nazis hanged. Soon he was recognized by those shrewd judges of character, Pope Pius and Premier Mussolini, as a statesman of commanding powers. He proved his ability by maneuvering out of the Austrian Vice-Chancellorship famed fun-loving Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, who once had an Austrian private political army of 125,000, aspired to the Austrian Throne. Pious Kurt von Schuschnigg long wished to restore "His Most Apostolic Majesty Kaiser Otto von Habsburg." This week, however, Otto's goose...