Word: heimwehr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hungarian Government. He closeted himself for several hours with little Chancellor Dollfuss, then rushed off for Rome. In Trieste, earlier in the week, Italian police suddenly arrested three Nazis bound for Austria, seized trunks full of smoke and tear gas bombs, bundles & bundles of pro-Nazi propaganda. In Vienna Heimwehr troops suddenly assembled with rifles, full equipment and rations for three days, piled into motor trucks and departed. Such was Austria's first week after the bloody suppression of the Socialists (TIME, Feb. 26). What could be heard but not seen last week was the following prize collection...
...Following Nazi Theodor Habicht's "radio ultimatum'' giving Austria eight days to accept a Nazi Government, the Heimwehr men were being sent to the border where 10,000 men of the famed Austrian Legion were supposed to be ready to invade the country through the narrow valley at Braunau-Adolf Hitler's birthplace. U. S. correspondents investigated privately, could find no signs of unusual activity on either side of the border. From Berlin they learned that Handsome Adolf himself had suppressed news of the Habicht ultimatum in Germany and was thinking of pensioning or retiring...
...Heimwehr men had left Vienna in order to stage a fascist march on Vienna in imitation of Mussolini's famed March on Rome. Chancellor Dollfuss was a party to this, willing to step down to accept either von Starhemberg or Emil Fey as Heimwehr Dictator. Prince von Starhemberg scotched this story himself: "Please deny energetically any rumor of a Heimwehr march on Vienna. There is no need for such a march. We are a part of the Government and fully support the Government...
...week an under-official in the War Office at Vienna gave the most plausible explanation of all the marchings of Heimwehr men. They were preparing for no particular crisis but merely parading to show their strength in the provinces. Troops from different villages were being transferred to others where they would not be recognized because German Nazis long ago discovered that the entire impressiveness of a thunderous parade may be spoiled by one small child shrilling, "Ach, look at Uncle August...
Nazis. All this time not one peep had come from the Nazis, the real spider at the centre of Austria's web of worries. Their tactics were to say nothing and do nothing until the Heimwehr had finished for them the messy job of cleaning up Socialism. Then they hoped to rally the disgruntled of all parties to the Swastika. The famed Nazi radio station in Munich that has been the bane of the Dollfuss Government for more than a year led off the campaign with a scornful speech by pale, spectacled Theodor Habicht, Nazi "Inspector General for Austria...