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They did not stop with the Chancellor. The Industrialists visited prominent leaders of the Heimwehr and Schutzbund and talked long, hard, pointedly to them. So effective were these little conferences that last week blustering Dr. Pfrimer, loudest of the Heimwehr leaders, explained that when he had boasted in previous speeches of a "triumphant march on Vienna with rifles in hand" what he had really meant was merely "a spiritual march of Heimwehr ideals...
With the political situation eased by the deflation of Dr. Pfrimer, well-groomed, white-chinned Johann Schober, Vienna's paunchy Police President, carefully inspected his green-coated and his khaki-coated constabulary, took stock of the machine guns in his station houses. Then he issued a cryptic but reassuring message in the Wiener Sonnundmontagszeitung (Vienna Sundayandmondaynewspaper...
Well knowing that the Austrian Government, with an army reduced to a scattered force of 30,000 men by the Treaty of St. Germain, cannot enforce the Cabinet's orders, bristling Schutzbund and Heimwehr leaders grew more than ever violent in language as the week progressed. Cried fiery Dr. Pfrimer, Vienna Heimwehr Commander: "For our brothers whom the Schutzbund have slain, the Heimwehr will take revenge in a form that will be remembered for many a long...
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