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...sniffle, wonders whether he is catching cold. In Vienna there were undeniable sniffles of Hitlerism. Under banners reading EIN VOLK-EIN REICH! ("One People-One Nation!") a crowd of 20,000 Viennese National Socialists (Nazis) gathered to cheer their leader, Herr Alfred Frauenfeld, as he roared: "Not Engelbert Dollfuss but Adolf Hitler is our Chancellor...
...contrary, famed "Little Dollfuss" (4 ft. 11 in.), whose friends compare him to "Little Corporal" Napoleon, was very much Chancellor of Austria last week, and doing his best to cure the Hitlerite sniffles before they should become political pneumonia. Rumors reached Vienna that some of the frontier posts dividing Austria and Germany had been pulled up in the night. Anything might happen. The fact that Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany is by birth an Austrian increased the danger that Austrian Nazis might be able to seize the Government, helped (according to further rumors) by 60,000 German Nazis supposed...
...secret joint note from France and Britain to Austria demanding that the 50,000 Hirtenberg guns be either destroyed or shipped back to Italy (TIME, Feb. 27). Il Duce's protests at this "ultimatum" did not change the fact that the Austrian government of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is dependent on French and British loans. The Chancellor prepared to knuckle down to his big creditors...
Loudly and vehemently Deputy Berthold Koenig spurned this idea, reported the entire conversation to the foreign Press and to Chancellor Dollfuss who suspended Railway Director Seefehlner with considerable embarrassment, promised Britain and France that the rifles, cross his heart, will really be sent back to Italy. Viennese newspapers scare-headed that ousted Director Seefehlner faces trial for high treason...
German Editors raged. The loan agreement, they recalled, pledges Austria not to join Germany in an anschluss (union). That was why Frenchmen, who want above all to keep Austria and Germany apart, voted as they did. "Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria," stormed Berlin's Deutsche Rundschau, "will figure in history as the Judas of the Germanic cause...