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...week ago demanding that the Reich cease its sub-rosa aid to the Fascist party in Austria has precipitated a serious situation in that country. Dollfuss finds himself in a highly precarious position, with the political unity of his country rapidly disintegrating before his eyes. With the Heimwehr reported to be riddled with Nazi sympathizers, the Socialist party alienated, and the peasants supporting him only on account of the Church, Dollfuss apparently feels that his domestic position has become so unstable that if he is to maintain his government against the ever increasing violence of Nazi propaganda, he must have...
Because Nazi suspects had been found in high Heimwehr posts, it seemed likely for a few days that youthful Prince von Starhemberg would be shelved as commander of the Heimwehr in favor of his far more effective subordinate, Vice Chancellor Emil Fey. Prince von Starhemberg saved his job and proved his loyalty to the Dollfuss regime with a blast to his followers attacking Hitlerism...
Affairs have been so long in a state of crisis in Austria that the high tension is assuming normality. Herr Dollfuss is still ruling by the skin of his excellently white teeth, the Nazis and Heimwehr are making a great deal of noise and suffering a wild persecution, and the Socialists are biding their time, suspicious of both parties, with a general strike trump up their ragged sleeves in case of emergency. The Chancellor has ordered gallows to be erected for public punishment; mass demonstrations have been outlawed; the opposition press is now effectively muzzled. One thing which this situation...
Totally unready to die, Chancellor Dollfuss was last week busily stuffing up the chinks in his ''Patriotic Front" coalition against Naziism. Already head of the army, police and gendarmerie, he took over the headship of Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg's "White Fascist" Heimwehr. In payment he made Prince von Starhemberg deputy chairman of the Patriotic Front. Thus he prevented the hot-headed Prince from going off half-cocked and had the Heimwehr men to help him break any strikes the Socialists may call. He dissolved the Socialist singing society, the Sängerbund...
Nobody knows how many Nazis and pro-Nazis there are in Austria. Beyond the 60,000 uniformed Heimwehr men, estimates of the Heimwehr's political strength are equally uncertain. But 1,250,000 Socialists signed their names and addresses to a recent petition to Chancellor Dollfuss (TIME, Sept. 18) demanding the reconvening of Parliament and there are less than 7,000,000 souls in Austria...