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Against the German Nazi racket across the border. Austria's little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss last week stoutly turned his bottle-shaped back, tried to stuff his ears. A special Hitler propagandist had come to Austria: Bavarian Minister of Justice Hans Frank, with two colleagues. When the three stepped from their plane last fortnight on a Vienna landing field, a police official told them they were "not very desirable." Nevertheless, Dollfuss permitted them to speak non-politically to 30,000 Austrian Nazis at a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the delivery of Vienna from the Turks.* The audience soon...
None of this pleased Hitler. Last week the first repercussion to the scene at the landing field came with a sharp protest from Hitler to Dollfuss. Without delay Dollfuss snapped back that Hitler's man would do well to apologize for the "Turk"' speech in Vienna before Austria could reconsider its brusqueness to him. Police caught up with Frank and friends, busy on a haranguing tour of Austrian Nazi groups. They were told to leave Austria "rapidly." Then Dollfuss ordered 100 other German Nazis deported. He had already had 2,380 Austrian Nazis arrested for bombarding the Heimwehr...
...Dollfuss' problem last week lay in the alignment of three potent Austrian parties, backed by three foreign governments: the Christian Socialist, backed by France; the Heimatblock (Heimwehr), backed by Italy; the National Socialists, backed by Germany. Dollfuss does not want the National Socialists (Nazis); he can count on the Christian Socialist (government) party; he needs the Heimwehr too, now holding the balance of power. His wearing of the Jager uniform was romantic bait for the patriotic Heimwehr. More bait was dangled in the rumor that the Austrian Army will soon shuck its dull German field-grey, re-emerge...
Fighting all the way, the government of square-jawed little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss continued to oppose the relentless growth of Hitlerism in Austria last week. Fortnight ago came that decree so familiar to the last years of republican Germany: a ban on the wearing of political uniforms. Austrian Nazis promptly rushed to second-hand clothing shops and bought up all the old silk hats in sight, on the assumption that there could be no law against the wearing of a Cylinder, emblem of bourgeois respectability. For a few happy hours Viennese Nazis flaunted battered toppers above their sport suits until...
Next move was to reshuffle the cabinet. Little Chancellor Dollfuss traded Ministers around the better to fight Naziism, the better to court a much-needed loan from France. Most important cabinet shift was the appointment as Minister of Public Safety of Major Emil Fey. who has command over all Austria's defense forces. An ardent Royalist, a personal friend of Benito Mussolini, he fights the idea of anschluss (political union) with Germany as reducing Austria to the status of a minor German province...