Word: heimwehr
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Exactly what did he intend to do, they asked, about the Schutzbund-Heimwehr riots? Vienna, they pointed out, is an oversized city in an undersized country. She needs the tourist trade to exist. Vienna makes and sells fine porcelain, furniture, pearl buttons, meerschaum pipes, leather goods, luggage,* furs, jewelry. The great Vienna International Fair, Austria's semi-annual chance to make trade contacts with other countries would open in a few days. Without tourists, the fair could not succeed. What was the Chancellor going...
...months, like bad-tempered mice before a large and dignified cat, Linz Socialists have been watching Prince Ernst, eager to catch him in a definitely illegal action. Weeks ago they complained that Prince Ernst was not only commandant of the Upper Austrian Heimwehr, Austria's secret reactionary military organization, but had been equipping Heimwehr troops at his own expense, drilling them on the grounds of his castle, just as his ancestors drilled and equipped their henchmen. Complacent Linz police saw no reason to interfere. Prince Ernst might be drilling, they said, but he was breaking...
...seem to have broken the law. They sent a polite note to Prince Ernst, telling him of the Socialists' accusations, warning him that it would be necessary to search Schloss Waxenberg for arms. Followed four days, in which, while the police waited patiently, Prince Ernst's Heimwehr worked like ants, carrying boxes and crates out of the castle, into the woods. Only then did the Linz police, urged on by excited Socialists, climb and sweat up the hill to the massy gate of Schloss Waxenberg...