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...Prince von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr. was last week offered the post of Minister without portfolio in the Dollfuss Cabinet. Two weeks before he had said: "Reports that I am aiming at the crown are entirely untrue. I will not be a competitor of the Habsburgs. Otto is the only possible Emperor." If Otto should be restored it would bring certain definite advantages to Austria. The minor squabblings of Heimwehr, Christian Socialists, and Dollfuss Front members would end once they had a common figure to rally round. There would be a new, possibly a more glamorous figure...
...Vienna socialism. One power has, however, managed to do some very successful fishing in troubled waters and that power is Italy. What Italy has been able to get out of it is only now becoming apparent as the full implications of the conferences between Premier Goemboes of Hungary, Chanceller Dollfuss, and Mussolini, which start today, are seen...
Crisis or not, there was still plenty for diminutive Chancellor Dollfuss to do. Just a year after he had dissolved Parliament, he let it be known last week that the old Constitution of Austria was definitely and finally abolished, that a new Austro-Fascist Constitution would be proclaimed within a week. In the Official Gazette Government Adviser Robert Hecht explained things...
...Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg and Vice Chancellor Emil Fey. From Budapest arrived sleek bespectacled Fulvio Suvich, Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who had been discussing a possible Italian-Austro-Hungarian trade alliance with the Hungarian Government. He closeted himself for several hours with little Chancellor Dollfuss, then rushed off for Rome. In Trieste, earlier in the week, Italian police suddenly arrested three Nazis bound for Austria, seized trunks full of smoke and tear gas bombs, bundles & bundles of pro-Nazi propaganda. In Vienna Heimwehr troops suddenly assembled with rifles, full equipment and rations for three days...
...Heimwehr men had left Vienna in order to stage a fascist march on Vienna in imitation of Mussolini's famed March on Rome. Chancellor Dollfuss was a party to this, willing to step down to accept either von Starhemberg or Emil Fey as Heimwehr Dictator. Prince von Starhemberg scotched this story himself: "Please deny energetically any rumor of a Heimwehr march on Vienna. There is no need for such a march. We are a part of the Government and fully support the Government...