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Rumors are circulating through Austria that the Hapsburgs may be restored and a monster mass meeting of royalists was held in Vienna to which Chanceller Dollfuss gave his official blessing. Unfortunately, blessing his loving subjects will not be of much avail to little Dollfuss at this point; the royalist activities are not so indicative of Hapsburg as of Starhemberg strength. As might have been foreseen when Dollfusa surrendered to the Heimwher, his power is very shortly due to be curtailed and eventually to be abolished completely. Aside from the fact that the very organization of the Fascist party--which...
...accomplished this, that the Regency rumors are not only highly significant for the present but also indicative of the future. They are lent additional strength by the fact that this would probably be the ideal solution of the Austrian problem from every point of view but the German. Dollfuss, who is now neither fish nor fowl and who consequently has no power over the elements which he called in to save him would be displaced; a moderate form of Fascism headed by a man of aristocratic antecedents would be more satisfactory to all groups in Austria than...
...tactics were to say nothing and do nothing until the Heimwehr had finished for them the messy job of cleaning up Socialism. Then they hoped to rally the disgruntled of all parties to the Swastika. The famed Nazi radio station in Munich that has been the bane of the Dollfuss Government for more than a year led off the campaign with a scornful speech by pale, spectacled Theodor Habicht, Nazi "Inspector General for Austria." Said...
...leaders of the Nazi Party in Austria will expel any member who responds to Prince Schönburg-Hartenstein's appeal for old soldiers to come to the aid of the Dollfuss Government. We will sacrifice not a man and not a cartridge because every possible and conceivable outcome of this conflict will result against Germany and the German people. But we will be ready at any time to make any sacrifice for a German solution of the Austrian problem...
Next day, softening his tone, he rhetorically inquired whether the Dollfuss Government "is prepared to find a way into a better German future in common with the National Socialist movement?" As though to give Dollfuss time to answer this preposterous question, he declared an eight-day "armistice'' on Nazi activities in Austria. "Party comrades will be allowed in this period merely to conduct propaganda among former members of the Socialist Party or to ward off direct attacks against their own persons...