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...former Imperial Palace. Hemmed in by glittering buttons and braid and feathers of the entire diplomatic corps, sat enthroned three scarlet-robed Cardinals and their Brother-in-God the Papal Legate from Rome. Bands played, a choir sang Schubert's Deutsche Messe and, grave with emotion, little Chancellor Dollfuss stepped forward and laid a wreath at the ornate bronze equestrian statue to Prince Eugene of Savoy, who helped defend Vienna...
...rumor that an army of 8,000 Austrian Nazi exiles had massed on the Bavarian side of the frontier. The rumor crackled through Innsbruck, then spread with mounting terror through the Tyrol, through all Austria, that war had begun, the Nazi invasion was under way. From Vienna, Chancellor Dollfuss, delighted with his little war scare, announced that the maneuvers were merely the usual autumn field practice. He did not add that little Austria, which has just received official permission to increase its little army from 22,000 to 30,000 men, had last week 40,000 armed...
...Tyrol too comes Franz Hofer, an Austrian Nazi. No friend of the Habsburgs, eager to see his country absorbed by Ger- many, Nazi Hofer unwittingly added 8,000 men to the little Austrian Army, and brought the active support of France and Britain to the struggling government of Engelbert Dollfuss...
Assistance. Hofer, Weber and Lessing were just what the Dollfuss Government needed to point up the Hitler menace to the peace of Europe, and it used them to the hilt. Quickly came the little Chan- cellor's reward. Worried Italy, France, Britain gave Austria permission to increase her regular army of 22,000 men to 30,000, the full strength allowed under the Treaty of St. Germain, "as long as the special conditions exist." as long as Adolf Hitler is Chancellor of Germany. Permission included a good deal more than adding another 8,000 men to Austria...
...Italy's north from a French invasion through the mountain passes and along the seacoast. The Fascist militia was mobilized, acting in reserve for the regular troops. In the field too were little King Victor Emmanuel and Il Duce, who hurried over from his conference with Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria fortnight ago (results of which were announced last week) to establish headquarters at Garessio...