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...Germany and Premier of Prussia but their minds were on other things. Lean-jawed Col. von Papen and blustering, full-blooded Capt. Goring darted from one ancient palace to the next, from the Vatican to the Air Ministry, to Il Duce's office. Shortly stumpy little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria came roaring over the Alps in an airplane and started a similar round of visits on his own. Hurrying to Rome to see what it was all about came Istvan Antal, press chief of Hungary and special representative of Premier Gombos, Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta of Switzerland...
Keeping his head, "Little Dollfuss" drafted a decree forbidding political meetings of any kind in Vienna, sent it to the City Hall. A few minutes later back came the decree with "UNCONSTITUTIONAL!" scrawled across it in the passionate autograph of Vienna's grey-bearded Socialist Burgomaster, famed Karl Seitz...
...Army, mostly recruited outside Socialist Vienna, seemed ready to obey "Little Dollfuss" and by his command two regiments marched in, planted machine guns at strategic points, massed armored motor trucks where they might soon do the most good. Burgomaster Seitz shouted: "Vienna is no city of slaves! We warn the Government of the consequences of this dictatorship...
...qualify as a dictator, "Little Dollfuss" had sat up with his Cabinet until 1a. m., at which hour he issued a decree stating that Austria was without a parliament,* from which it followed that the Chancellor was supreme. This was confirmed by President Miklas of Austria who received "Little Dollfuss" in the wee hours, endorsed what he had done and went through the formality of refusing to accept a resignation which Dictator Dollfuss proffered, then repocketed...
Meanwhile another draft on "Little Dollfuss' " stiff neck was the rumor sweeping through Austria, that the 2O-year-old Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the throne, was either in the country or on the Swiss frontier, waiting for a call. Three newspapers were promptly suppressed for hinting at the story in print...