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Instead of "Settle this with as little bloodshed as possible," Dr. Dollfuss said, according to Major Fey last week, "Let there be no blood. Rintelen must make peace...
Since the object of the Nazis had been to make Dr. Anton Rintelen, "King Anton" of Nazi Styria, their Chancellor, this was as much as to say that Chancellor Dollfuss had yielded at his last gasp to the Nazi solution...
Testifying further, Major Fey gave the lie to the new Government's claim that Dr. Schuschnigg did not know the Nazis had killed Dollfuss when he promised them safe conduct to Germany, a promise which the Government failed to keep "on the ground that it was conditional on the Ballhaus being evacuated without the death of anyone within." Three times under cross-examination Major Fey stubbornly repeated, "The promise was made without conditions of any kind after those who made it knew that the Chancellor was dead. I repeatedly insisted that this promise should be kept...
Such an attitude could only mean that Major Fey considers the Nazis down but not out in Austria. The fact that he remained Minister of Interior after thrice in effect calling Chancellor Schuschnigg a liar was significant. Finally Austrians noticed that although the actual slayer of Dollfuss and the Nazi gang leader were promptly hanged fortnight ago, President Wilhelm Miklas of Austria commuted to life imprisonment last week the death sentence of another Nazi. Said Chancellor Schuschnigg: "Few if any more of the remaining Nazi prisoners will be hanged...
...Dollfuss was not only Chancellor but also Leader of the only party officially extant under his Dictatorship, the Fatherland Front. Last week Dr. Schuschnigg decided that the Chancellorship was enough for him and with alacrity permitted Vice Chancellor Prince von Starhemberg to assume the title of Leader. Together they announced that as soon as possible they will visit Benito Mussolini, longtime patron of the Austrian Dictatorship. Meanwhile last week Chancellor Schuschnigg received correspondents for the first time and wobbled in his state ments toward something which looked like an effort to replace Dictatorship by Coalition...