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...position which Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria occupies in this melange is critical and interesting. As the world knows, he is the nominal bulwark against the Anschluss and its proponents, the Nazis. Keyed up by a buoyant egoism which has led him to exploit his four feet eleven inches as a little Napoleon, and supported by considerable religious fervor, he has snatched at every straw to consolidate his position. To take the wind from Nazi sails, he has become a real dictator with actually Fascist principles, though professedly an amorphous Christian Socialism. How long will he last? That...
...indeterminate factor, and perhaps the decisive one, is the Socialist Party. How powerful it is, one has no exact way of telling; the last elections are all but forgotten. But it may be that it is the real defence against an Anschluss, for though the Socialists hate Dollfuss, they hate the Nazis, Austrian and German, even more, and have announced their readiness to proclaim a general strike, or at the worst, civil war, if any Nazi putsch is attempted. It would be odd indeed, though not improbable, if the Little Napoleon were kept in power by the party...
Nobody knows how many Nazis and pro-Nazis there are in Austria. Beyond the 60,000 uniformed Heimwehr men, estimates of the Heimwehr's political strength are equally uncertain. But 1,250,000 Socialists signed their names and addresses to a recent petition to Chancellor Dollfuss (TIME, Sept. 18) demanding the reconvening of Parliament and there are less than 7,000,000 souls in Austria...
Socialist spokesmen were brutally frank: "We tolerated Dollfuss because he was fighting the Nazis, but the actual result of the government's policy has been to strengthen the Nazi movement enormously. . . . Touch our City Hall and you touch off a general strike. Attempt a Habsburg restoration and you touch off an automatic civil...
...days later, after addressing a meeting of Christian Socialists, Chancellor Dollfuss on his way to his offices in Parliament Building was accosted by a youth. The boy handed a paper-apparently a petition-to a soldier guard. Then he stepped back, whipped out a revolver, fired two shots at the Chancellor. Doughty little Dollfuss staggered, then calmly walked to his automobile. Surgeons found one bullet in his shirt where it had bounced off a rib. The other had only scratched his arm. Safe and sound at home, the Chancellor prepared to make a radio broadcast that night. Meanwhile his assailant...