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Maintaining friendly relations with Hungary was important, but what Engelbert Dollfuss apparently went to Budapest for was to allow Vice Chancellor Emil Fey to perform a few blunt maneuvers for which Chancellor Dollfuss did not care to be directly responsible. The Heimwehr, fist of the Dollfuss regime, had seized virtual control of the Tyrol and was loudly demanding that the little Chancellor live up to his promise to end parliamentary government and attack Marxism in Austria (TIME, Feb. 12). Chancellor Dollfuss departed for Budapest and handed extraordinary powers to Vice Chancellor Fey, the Heimwehr's second in command...
Leaving Vienna for a purpose, little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss climbed down from his railway carriage at Budapest one day last week and shook hands with his beetle-browed confrère, Premier Gömbös of Hungary. It was an occasion. They talked. While the ignorant prattled about the restoration of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Der Kleiner Engelbert, presented with a big bunch of posies by a group of Austrian girls living in the city divided by the Danube, made a cocky little speech...
When Chancellor Dolifuss first enlisted the aid of the Nazis, he must have been aware that it would mean the eventual abandonment of his own party for Fascism is a movement, which by its very nature excludes any other sort of political development. Consequently, the violent denunciation of Dollfuss's own party, the Christian Socialists, which has just been made by Prince Starhemberg, can come as no surprise to him, for when he resolved to crush the Socialists with the aid of the Heimwehr, he must have known that he could not temporize or adopt any half measures, that...
Whereas the Nazi fascism in Germany was built up around the industrial capitalism to keep the reins of power out of the proletariat's hands and the proletariat out of socialism, socialism taxed the individual capitalist out of existence in Vienna. Dollfuss, it seems, wishes to preserve agrarian capitalism without the opposition of Viennese socialists. The Austrian agrarian proletariat, the peasants, found the Maxist doctrine incomprehensible and impractical, and their overlords, the landed aristocracy, found it distinctly undesirable. From them Dollfuss has drawn his party, and since he has the benefit of the national army and the majority...
Where do the Nazis and their long-touted anschluss enter the picture? While Hitler has repeatedly persecuted German socialists, there is strong likelihood that many of the Austrian socialists will turn to the Swastika against Dollfuss. If Austrian Nazism gains a working majority in Austria, if Dollfuss can be overthrown, the anschluss is a foregone conclusion. Foreign armed intervention in such a case would be made considerably more difficult in this case than if Germany forced the anschluss by a repetition of 1866. Even in such an exigency, however, it is dubious, as Professor Langer says, if the people...