Word: heimwehrmen
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...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. The Nazis withdrew, leaving two of their band dead on the ground...
...week's end Nazis and Heimwehrmen were snapping at 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...
...Cabinet through the Phönix-Wien insurance scandal (TIME, April 20, et seq.). Politically it was a squib. More serious trouble occurred fortnight ago when Chancellor von Schuschnigg's own private army, the Catholic Freiheitsbund. staged an anti-Semitic march around the Ringstrasse. Word leaked out that Heimwehrmen, in civilian clothes, had been told off to break the parade up with rioting when it reached the Heldenplatz. Scrawny Chancellor von Schuschnigg promptly showed a personal courage few knew he possessed. He led the parade himself. Even so, Heimwehr-men followed instructions, threw rocks, howled "Pfni Schuschnigg...
...Starhemberg secured the release of all the arrested Heimwehrmen by nightfall. Then last week came his chance to strike back. Cocky Prince von Starhemberg, on his own authority, sent off a telegram to Benito Mussolini in honor of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia...
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