Word: heimwehr
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...Regent, was given full freedom by the Yard police. Harvard's name was blackened by students in Nazi uniform, shouting for war. The University demands that radical clubs conform to all rules, but turns the other way when its embryonic Fascists violate regulations. The Austrian government which gave the Heimwehr free rein, the German government which took no step against the Hitlerites, practised an analogous "democratic" policy...
...restoration. A political move in which they were more willing to believe was the possible establishment of a Regency for Austria on the model of Admiral Horthy's Regency in Hungary. First candidate for such a post is obviously Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr, descendant and namesake of the great general who saved Vienna from the Turks in 1683. When there was another little Cabinet shift in Vienna last week, a second candidate for Regent of Austria jumped into the public mind. Dauntless old Prince Alois von Schonburg-Hartenstein, 75, was advanced from Under...
...Prince von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr. was last week offered the post of Minister without portfolio in the Dollfuss Cabinet. Two weeks before he had said: "Reports that I am aiming at the crown are entirely untrue. I will not be a competitor of the Habsburgs. Otto is the only possible Emperor." If Otto should be restored it would bring certain definite advantages to Austria. The minor squabblings of Heimwehr, Christian Socialists, and Dollfuss Front members would end once they had a common figure to rally round. There would be a new, possibly a more glamorous figure...
...Government declared out of office any man elected to anything on the Socialist ticket. A single labor union on the Italian Fascist model was promised. Recruiting for Army, Heimwehr and police was pushed vigorously. In every city little squads of recruits in civilian clothes were to be seen drilling busily...
...week an under-official in the War Office at Vienna gave the most plausible explanation of all the marchings of Heimwehr men. They were preparing for no particular crisis but merely parading to show their strength in the provinces. Troops from different villages were being transferred to others where they would not be recognized because German Nazis long ago discovered that the entire impressiveness of a thunderous parade may be spoiled by one small child shrilling, "Ach, look at Uncle August...