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Armed conflict between the Austrian Fascist Heimwehr and the outlawed Socialist Schutzbund has been inevitable since the bloody riots of 1927. What even the Heimwehr did not anticipate was the fierce bravery of the Socialist defense and the effect it would have on the foreign popularity of little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. The final outcome was never in doubt, but for nearly 48 hours determined Socialists actually had the upper hand in Linz and Steyr (Austria's Detroit). For a brief time even the Heimwehr commander, theatrical Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, was surrounded. Victorious at last...
Much elated, Prince von Starhemberg strongly hinted that if Dollfuss did not carry out the Heimwehr program to the limit, he might sell out to the Nazis. Crowed he: "The Chancellor's first job is to clear the Socialists out of Vienna's City Hall. If he fails to do it, the Heimwehr will. If the Heimwehr fails, the Nazis will...
...Vienna and all Upper Austria and the troops called out. Machine guns riddled the Socialist headquarters at Linz. Mountain batteries smashed the barricades of Socialist workmen in the Danube shipyards. Armored trucks with blazing guns tore up & down the streets of Vienna. The Government outlawed the Socialist Party; and Heimwehr youths in grey-green overcoats and steel helmets took possession of Vienna's city hall, for years a Socialist stronghold. Burgomaster Karl Seitz was held prisoner. Army howitzers whanged away at Karl Marx court, largest apartment building in Europe, housing some 2,000 Socialist families...
...Austro-German Anschluss depends now primarily upon whether the Nazi element in the Austrian Heimwehr can gain the upper hand," said Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...
...Soctalists in Austria are already powerless. The Nazis, who desire the annexation of Austria to Germany, are still organized and are becoming more and more aggressive. If the head of the Heimwehr, the Hapsburg Prince Starhemberg, who is against annexation, finds himself unable to control his men, then the Nazi element will gain the upper hand within the Heimwehr. And in this case, the movement towards immediate annexation of Austria by Germany will become unresisted, and official foreign intervention unavoidable...