Word: putsch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Breathless, red-faced and disheveled, a young Austrian Nazi ducked into a cafe on Vienna's Wiedner Hauptstrasse one morning last week, slipped up to a table and gasped: "Der Linzer Putsch ist futsch!" (a fizzle at Linz). Within a few hours all Europe knew the details of the latest half-cocked attempt of an Austrian Nazi band to seize power, and disgusted German Nazis were again calling their southern brethren stupid sheepsheads...
Eight of the actual attacking party were caught. Police raids throughout Austria netted scores more. Once again Italian troops on Brenner Pass were told to stand ready for any emergency. Object of the "futsched Putsch" was not to assassinate Prince von Starhemberg, who had returned empty-handed from Italy and was safely in Vienna, but to seize some of the munitions supposed to be hidden in his castle. It was a local Putsch and any smart Nazi might have guessed there were no guns at Waxenberg last week. Prince von Starhemberg has not yet disarmed his Heim-wehr...
...addition there was 430,000 schillings paid to buy houses for Jewish refugees from Germany, and a payment of 108,000 schillings to Anton Rintelen, now serving a life sentence for participation in the Nazi Putsch which led to the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss. Maintaining the goodwill of the Austrian Press cost Phönix-Wien 1,098,000 schillings...
Hero Genera. Against the fact that Major General Hans von Seeckt created Germany's superb little "expert army' under the Treaty of Versailles stood, until last week, the facts that lie smashed Adolf Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich in 1923, that he has a "non-Aryan"' wife. Lately, however, Adolf Hitler has decided that his 1923 failure was a good idea. Last week General von Seeckt turned 70 and Adolf Hitler named him honorary commander of the 67th Infantry Regiment, to be called henceforth the General von Seeckt Regiment...
...vacation trip. To informed observers, however, it was heavily significant that the Bourbon wedding was the chance of a lifetime to confer with all Austria's leading royalists at once. Sir Austen was supposed to have brought word from London that as a last resort against a Nazi Putsch in Austria, Britain was ready to back the restoration of Pretender Otto to the Austrian Imperial Throne...