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...unsatisfactory reply which Germany has just made to the Austrian note of a week ago demanding that the Reich cease its sub-rosa aid to the Fascist party in Austria has precipitated a serious situation in that country. Dollfuss finds himself in a highly precarious position, with the political unity of his country rapidly disintegrating before his eyes. With the Heimwehr reported to be riddled with Nazi sympathizers, the Socialist party alienated, and the peasants supporting him only on account of the Church, Dollfuss apparently feels that his domestic position has become so unstable that if he is to maintain...
...Dollfuss' appeal has brought about a crisis the seriousness of which is not generally realized. If the Nazis are successful and a pro-German Fascist regime is set up in Austria it will signify more than merely a further spread of the Fascist doctrine; it will mean that the powers of Europe have lost the first real test of strength, with Hitler's Germany, and it will mean the beginning of the end for the status quo set up at Versailles. If Germany is allowed to absorb or control Austria the post-war system of Europe which was based...
...first Austrian to be sentenced to death since Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss revived the death penalty to cow Nazis was a non-Nazi farm boy named Hans Breitweiser. Like the hero of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, he had resolved to marry a well-dowried girl, after he had seduced a poor one. His solution was to murder the poor girl last week, so bunglingly that she lived long enough to accuse...
...lawyer combed Austria by telephone and telegraph for his last hope, Catholic President Wilhelm Miklas. Locating him in the far Alps opening a new mountain railway, he begged the President to stretch the boy's life beyond the allotted three hours. As pious in a crisis as Chancellor Dollfuss, President Miklas went to mass, spent half an hour alone praying for Divine guidance...
Meanwhile Austria's nimble little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss had apologized to the German Minister in Vienna for Schumacher's death. Faced with Dictator Hitler's shrewd appeal to the native Germanism of Austrians, Dictator Dollfuss protested that he was doing "everything to bring about swift and complete clarification of this sad occurrence." His preliminary findings showed that Private Schumacher had unwittingly crossed the border...