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Back from the Austrian frontier last week Benito Mussolini withdrew the 50,000 troops, the tanks and field guns that he sent to prevent an Austrian Nazi Putsch after the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 6). Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, Austrian Vice Chancellor, had just reported in Rome to Il Duce that Austria is now quiet. This week the new Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, is due in Italy to attend the annual war games as Premier Mussolini's guest. Last week the Italian troops which marched away from Austria did not march far. Most went back to their...
Herr Apold waved his hands, spluttered. All Styria knew that A. M. G. had been behind the attempted Nazi Putsch. A few years ago A. M. G. used to back not the Nazis but the Heimwehr, private army of Austria's present Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. It was doubtless Thyssen who caused A. M. G. to switch over to what, for the present at least, has proved the losing side. Reputedly last week it was the Heimwehr, furious at their former backer, who demanded that Chancellor Schuschnigg squeeze the 'Iron Mountain...
...Vienna dynamic young Vice Chancellor Prince Ernst Riidiger von Starhemberg remained totally unimpressed. "I know that the Austrian Legion has been moved back into Germany away from our frontier," said he, "but I know on the other hand from reliable reports from Germany that every preparation is being made so that they can be brought to the frontier again without loss of time when required. ... I am quite convinced that we shall have to face another Nazi Putsch, probably before the end of the year...
...Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, Vice Chancellor and Minister of Public Security...
Knife Night. For the next hour Chancellor Hitler's address rambled darkly among the alleged plots of the men shot by his orders. Tears streamed down his face as he told of a five-hour soul struggle between himself and Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm. "I adjured him for the last time voluntarily to abandon this madness. . . . The result of our conversation, however, turned out to be that Roehm, realizing he in no circumstances could count on me for his scheme, started preparations to eliminate me personally." The scheme (and Herr Hitler's allusions to it were maddeningly...