Word: heimwehren
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...slip of paper which he handed to the little Chancellor and strapping Major Emil Fey, Commissar for Emergency Measures for Defense of the State. "Action against the Government is being prepared," read the paper. Almost before this warning could sink in five truckloads of men dressed as soldiers, Heimwehren ("Home Guards") and police rumbled up to the Ballhaus. So closely did these invaders resemble lawful forces of the State that the Ballhaus' sentries had not even challenged them. Jumping down from a truck, their leader, dressed as a high Austrian Army officer with medals blazing on his chest, barked...
...official' intervention because actual interference is already a fact. Mussolini has given arms to the Heimwehren; Hitler has given arms to the Nazis; and Czechoslovakia has helped the Socialists as far as possible. Austria has become a battlefield for all her neighbors. There is not yet any official intervention, but for many years there has been foreign official interference...
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