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...Austrian reception in Geneva last week an excited Englishwoman plunged down upon little Chancellor Dollfuss and fervently grasped his hand...
...address, attendants agreed that not since the oratorical pinwheels of the late Aristide Briand had a League audience given such an ovation. From the front row even handsome German Foreign Minister von Neurath started to clap until nudged into silence by beady-eyed Nazi Paul Joseph Goebbels. Said Chancellor Dollfuss...
Back in Vienna the Dollfuss government was warily picking its way from crisis to crisis. Dissatisfaction of the powerful Heimwehr was settled fortnight ago when Heimwehr Leader Prince von Starhemberg announced that the tentative outline of the new Dollfuss "corporative state" was acceptable to him. Last week the Heimwehr announced its complete absorption in the Dollfuss "Patriotic Front" and its own dissolution as a political party. "This makes the further existence of other parties unnecessary," read their announcement...
...good, but the next step brought the Dollfuss government smack up against a great and solid mass, the Socialists of Vienna. Viennese Socialists have tolerated, even aided, Engelbert Dollfuss because they know that much as he dislikes them they would receive even shorter shrift from a Nazi government. Last week Prince von Starhemberg shrilled at a Heimwehr meeting...
...such camps set up near Vienna, one at Wollersdorff, the other at Bruck an der Leitha. Nazis and "persons against whom well-grounded suspicion exists that they are preparing for or assisting in treasonable actions," will not only be interned there, but must pay their own keep. Chancellor Dollfuss ignored Vice Chancellor Fey's doings but bristled up in Geneva when Austria's Habsburg pretender, handsome 20-year-old Archduke Otto, son of the late Austrian Emperor Karl, made a bid for restoration. In letters to three Austrian towns which conferred honorary citizenship on him last week...