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...foreign Press but hundreds of intelligent observers in Germany honestly believed that the Junker Government of General von Schleicher and Col. von Papen had definitely ended the growth of Hitlerism in Germany. Anxious not to repeat the same mistake, observers have this year watched the fight of little Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria against Naziism with marked scepticism. They know that Austria's 6,500,000 are still nearly 50% pro-Nazi. They know that as a matter of prestige Adolf Hitler, who once roamed the streets of Vienna hungry, is willing to spend time and money...
Benito Mussolini provided the bacon. Until the middle of last week Chancellor Dollfuss would let out no specific word of what occurred last fortnight when II Duce, in a dripping bathing suit, sat in a rowboat with him beyond the beach at Riccione (TIME, Aug. 28). He would only smile rosily at Hearst Correspondent Karl von Wiegand...
...came the news: Italy was willing to back the Dollfuss Government to the following extent...
After a further conference at Riccione's Grand Hotel the two statesmen issued a communiqué from which it was clear that Chancellor Dollfuss agreed to Il Duce's plans for an Italo-Austrian-Hungarian bloc in return for Italian support of his regime. "Austrian independence" was laid down as a "basic principle" by Chancellor Dollfuss, according to the communiqué and both statesmen "perceived that there exists between them a common identity of ideas regarding the problems examined...
Broadcasting from Munich that same night, Chancellor Hitler's chief anti-Dollfuss propagandist, Nazi Theodor Habicht, roared: "There can be no peace and stability in Europe until Germany and Austria are united!" In Vienna counter-propaganda was released by the Austrian Foreign Office which inspired reports that Chancellor Dollfuss can now count on "certain military action" by Great Britain, France and Italy to preserve the status quo in Austria should his cabinet be menaced by "either German or Austrian Nazis...