Word: ernsts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
...school Economist Dr. Schmitt is secretive about whether he is yet a Nazi. He is famed for the quiet way in which for months he has shielded Jewish businessmen whenever possible and generally run the Ministry of Economics on sane, rational lines which made him hated by Captain Ernst Roehm and other "Nazi Bolsheviks" now safely massacred. Last week the Cabinet decreed, effective for the next three months: "The Minister of Economics is empowered to take all measures ... to improve German business or to prevent damage to the nation's economic structure. . . . The measures taken may be contrary...