Word: pro-nazi
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...responsibility, his tactics right along have been subtly to force Chancellor Dollfuss to do the things that Fey would do were he Chancellor. Austria's grey-jacketed private army, the Heimwehr, is divided into three groups. One part, under former Governor Anton Rintelen of Styria, is so frankly pro-Nazi that the Governor was hastily made Ambassador to Italy a few weeks ago. The rest are divided in allegiance between Prince von Starhemberg (founder but now only nominally leader of the entire Heimwehr) and Major Fey, commander of the Vienna district. The growing power of Major...
Turning of the Tyrol. At the end of April there were municipal elections in Innsbruck, capital of the Tyrol. Austrian Nazis polled twelve times their strength in 1931. Observers admitted that the Tyrol was probably 75% pro-Nazi. Since then has come Chancellor Dollfuss' personal success at the London Economic Conference, the patriotism campaign, the winning of the right to increase Austria's army, Germany's virtual embargo on tourists to Austria, her unbelievably stupid border skirmishing in which she alienated thousands by killing several Austrian frontier guards, and the active fortification of the Austrian frontier (TIME...
...Papen had definitely ended the growth of Hitlerism in Germany. Anxious not to repeat the same mistake, observers have this year watched the fight of little Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria against Naziism with marked scepticism. They know that Austria's 6,500,000 are still nearly 50% pro-Nazi. They know that as a matter of prestige Adolf Hitler, who once roamed the streets of Vienna hungry, is willing to spend time and money out of all proportion to Austria's real value to Germany to set up a Nazi Government on the Ringstrasse. The Schleicher-von Papen...