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...Vice Chancellor von Starhemberg was widened early in May when the vice chancellor refused to (1 agree to the return of the Habsburg heir, 2 support the Chancellor's move to effect an Austro-German union, 3 support a treaty of mutual assistance with Italy, 4 disband the Heimwehr, 5 resign his office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs: Current Affairs, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...favorite home of Ernst Rüdiger Prince von Starhemberg, ousted last fortnight as Austrian Vice Chancellor (TIME, May 25), is his family castle of Waxen-berg near Linz on the Danube. There he organized and drilled his original companies of the Heimwehr and there he kept for many years great stores of machine guns, rifles, pistols and steel helmets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Futsch Putsch | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Last week a polite voice called up the Vienna Heimwehr offices, asked if the castle were open to tourists, if Prince von Starhemberg were there, if his private guard would be drilling or if there would only be the usual caretakers on the grounds. Thus forewarned, a couple of busloads of green-coated Heimwehr hustled out to Waxenberg, hid in the new wing of the castle. About midnight a column of automobiles drew near the grounds. Out tumbled 50 apple-cheeked young Nazis who began tiptoeing toward the castle. Heimwehrmen swarmed out like bees. There was a rattle of shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Futsch Putsch | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...there were no guns at Waxenberg last week. Prince von Starhemberg has not yet disarmed his Heim-wehr as the Government is insisting he do, but he had removed every rifle from his castle knowing that if Chancellor von Schuschnigg should feel uppity enough to attempt to disarm the Heimwehr by force, Waxenberg Castle would be the first place he would search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Futsch Putsch | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...each other and bespectacled Kurt von Schuschnigg was still boss of the Fatherland Front. Last week at the ''Old Soldier's Day" celebration in suburban Aspern. newshawks saw 8,000 men in all sorts of uniforms, but not one of the feathered caps of the Heimwehr. Chancellor von Schuschnigg abandoned his cutaway and buttoned himself into his Wartime officer's tunic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Futsch Putsch | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

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