Word: millimetternich
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...country was given a new Cabinet. Kindly old President Wilhelm Miklas gave little "Millimetternich" (Dollfuss) carte blanche to reform the Government, which was promptly reshuffled to the following lineup...
...Conscience." Four feet eleven inches high is Engelbert Dollfuss, and he weighs less than 125 lb. His nickname, "Millimetternich," is an affectionate reference to physical smallness combined with political sagacity. His clothes are neat, impeccably brushed but of slightly archaic cut that smacks of the wheat fields and the Bauernbund. His most noticeable characteristics are his smile, which is constant, and the strength of his fingers. Like most Austrians he is a politely limp handshaker, but to hearty knuckle-grinders he can return a grip of steel. In the Dollfuss character, nothing is so important as his ardent, almost fanatical...
...proportion to Austria's real value to Germany to set up a Nazi Government on the Ringstrasse. The Schleicher-von Papen coalition failed because they could give the German people no real accomplishment to oppose the rosy promises of Hitlerism. Last week square-jawed little "Millimetternich" Dollfuss brought home to his people several good fat slices of bacon...
Just over the Bavarian border a tangible threat to Austria's safety exists in the form of 6,000 to 8,000 Austrian Nazi "exiles," living in German camps, drilling with German rifles. Millimetternich's next move was to lessen this danger by mobilizing 1,000 members of the Hilfspolizei (Assistant Police) and sending them to reinforce the present border guards. The Hilfspolizei are specially picked members of the officially unarmed anti-Nazi Heimwehr who have been armed and enrolled in the national government. Because of South Austrian murmurings that the Tyrol was playing too large a part...
When Nazi policemen threatened to kick the door down Dr. Wasserback submitted to arrest. In London Millimetternich-Dollfuss made protest to the Chief German Delegate and arranged for another formal protest from the Papal Nuncio in Berlin. Then, sure of the world's sympathy, he went back to bed. Dr. Wasser-back was released in a few hours, ordered from the country. Embarrassed Nazis ordered the German Press to suppress all mention of his arrest...