Word: millimetternich
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Millimetternich was cheered in the streets, at his hotel and at the meetings of the 14th League Assembly (TIME, Oct. 2) whose sessions this week were more than usually routine and futile. When he rose to make his first address, attendants agreed that not since the oratorical pinwheels of the late Aristide Briand had a League audience given such an ovation. From the front row even handsome German Foreign Minister von Neurath started to clap until nudged into silence by beady-eyed Nazi Paul Joseph Goebbels. Said Chancellor Dollfuss...
...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...
Beside the assumption of five portfolios by Millimetternich, the most important facts about the new Cabinet were the disappearance of Agrarian Leader Franz Winkler as Vice Chancellor; the shelving of old General Karl Vaugoin from the Ministry of Defense to the Directorship of the State Railways; and the shifting of the Heimwehr's hard-hitting Major Fey from the Ministry of Public Security to the Vice Chancellorship. Agrarian Winkler was shelved for his growing opposition to the entire Dollfuss program. General Vaugoin (generally credited with rebuilding the Austrian army), for listening too sympathetically to offers of Socialist...
...correspondents would like to believe. Matters hung in a balance for 48 hours. Prince von Starhemberg issued dark threats of what he would do if the Government "did not live up to its promises"-said promises being apparently an out & out Fascist dictatorship on the Italian model. Unperturbed, little Millimetternich continued to pray, then sketched in tentative outline his plans for the new Constitution: The parliamentary system will be greatly modified, not wholly abolished. Above both chambers of Parliament will be placed a Council of State of some 20 members to be appointed by the President and smacking vaguely...
...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...