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After a few words of greeting, Dictator Mussolini grabbed the edge of the skiff which teetered dangerously as he pulled himself aboard, sat down sopping at the tiller while Chancellor Dollfuss rowed the skiff out of earshot of plebeian bathers. During their rowboat conference the two statesmen undoubtedly discussed: 1) the Italian-Austrian-Hungarian trade pact negotiated by Il Duce and Premier Julius Gömbös in Rome (TIME, Aug. 7); 2) the fact that anti-Dollfuss propaganda was again being broadcast to Austria from German radio stations last week, despite the Hitler Government's assurance...
Statesmen of small countries have to do undignified things. Last week small Austria's minuscule Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (he is less than five feet tall) flew to the Adriatic beach resort of Riccione for a conference with Premier Benito Mussolini, found him swimming offshore and disinclined to come in. For Chancellor Dollfuss to have waited abjectly on the beach would have been too undignified. He hired a small skiff, rowed out to where Il Duce was floating on his back...
...Little Dollfuss' main job today is to stop the dropping of Nazi leaflets from German airplanes upon Austria, to silence Hitlerite radio appeals to Austrians, and generally to prevent Chancellor Adolf Hitler & henchmen from fomenting a Nazi revolt in the Austrian Republic...
...dash by air to the London Conference plausible Chancellor Dollfuss wangled in its lobbies a $43,000,000 League of Nations loan to Austria, largely underwritten by France and Britain in the belief that the Dollfuss Government is the sheet anchor of peace in Eastern Europe. Last week in Berlin peppery French Ambassador André Francois-Poncet left a stiff note at the Foreign Office and bland British Chargé d' Affaires Basil Newton protested verbally that German Nazi efforts to overthrow the Dollfuss Government are contrary to Germany's obligations under the Treaty of Versailles and more...
...Vienna the Dollfuss Government pressed their advantage by charging that on the very morning of the protests in Berlin "15 uniformed Germans from Bavarian territory ambushed and killed an Austrian sentry near Kufstein on the Bavarian frontier." Two days later uniformed German Nazis crossed the Swiss frontier near Basle, searched the shed of a Swiss watchman whom they accused of smuggling Communist leaflets into the Reich. Promptly both Switzerland and France strengthened their guards along the German frontier and Chancellor Dollfuss saw another chance for a smart move. He protested to London, Paris and Rome that the Austrian army (limited...