Word: heimwehr
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...moral theology and political economy when the War began, he was Austria's Minister of Social Welfare when the Monarchy fell (1918). By using all his fine craft the bald, beak-nosed cleric put the Christian Socialists in command of the Austrian Republic, fortified his party rule with the Heimwehr (Home Guard). Austria was bankrupt. Chancellor Seipel visited in turn all the European capitals, making the nations believe that Austria planned alliance with one or another. His craftiness brought Austria an international loan, prevented civil war. He resigned the chancellorship in 1929; recalled last year, he failed to form...
...citizen. In Austria his close friend Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg is Minister of Interior?and in most European countries it is this ministry which, controlling the electoral machinery, is said to "make the election." On the eve of polling Prince von Starhemberg, as leader of Austria's Fascist Heimwehr, appeared to possess every electoral advantage...
When ballots were counted only eight Heimwehr Deputies were found to have been seated. The Christian Socialist (Catholic) Party with which the Heimwehr is associated won 66 seats, seven less than at the last election. In contrast to this meagre Fascist showing, the old guard Socialist Party of Austria, the Social Democrats, won 72 seats, one more than they held in the last Parliament. Finally the party groups aligned under grand old Austrian State Police Chief Johann Schober, whom the Catholic-Heimwehr forces ousted as Prime Minister six weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 6) won 19 seats, the chamber totaling...
...Government is to remain Constitutional, must continue under a coalition Cabinet of some sort, probably a new one, since the prestige of Catholic Chancellor Karl Vaugoin was badly tarnished by his party's losses. What really mattered, however, was the possibility that Prince von Starhemberg and his Heimwehr would attempt a revolution. Apparently they made no real effort to win at the polls. In the arrogant words of the Prince himself: "We are indifferent to the people's mandate. We intend to rule Austria from outside the walls of Parliament ?that jabbering-booth...
Through the coffee houses of gossiping Vienna spread a rumor that handsome Prince von Starhemberg, fired by the triumphs of his friend, "Handsome Adolf" Hitler, in Germany, has a Heimwehr plot up his sleeve to doublecross the Seipel group which has given him the Ministry of Interior, hopes to manage the election of so many Heimwehr men that he himself will become No. 1 Austrian...