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Meanwhile Schuschnigg. Jesuit fathers correctly judged Kurt Schuschnigg in his boyhood to have the character of a great fighting Catholic, such as, for example, Ferdinand Foch. Schuschnigg, Jesuit-trained, brilliant and devout, fought in the World War right up to the Armistice, at which time he laid down his arms on Austria's Italian front. It was then, as Dr. Schuschnigg has bitterly complained in his memoirs, that some Scottish soldiers who had been aiding the Italians took not only his rifle and ammunition but also his watch, his ring and his pocketbook. After this he never again felt...
...rising young lawyer and Catholic politician, Dr. Schuschnigg had become Minister of Education and Justice by May 1, 1934, the date on which diminutive Austrian Chancellor Engelbert ("Millimetternich") Dollfuss formed his Christian Authoritarian State. It was said of Dr. Schuschnigg that he had come with "clean hands" through the welter of financial scandals involving many Austrian politicians since the War. So had Dollfuss, for that matter. Nobody thought of the Minister of Education and Justice as a future Austrian Chancellor-until he happened not to be with Dollfuss and most of the Cabinet on the day Nazi assassins captured...
Chancellor Schuschnigg's "harebrained proposal for a plebiscite" either entitles him to go down to posterity as "one of the great asses of history," Professor Langer stated, or else indicates he was encouraged by some outside influence...
...intimated that probably more than half the Austrians, although admitting no faith can be placed in a plebiscite sponsored by either Hitler or Schuschnigg, welcome Nazi domination. In commenting at the close of the speech, Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, contended that Nazi support has dwindled from a possible majority two years ago to about 40 per cent today...
Besides sending troops to suppress Nazi agitation in Graz and Linz, there were rumors in Vienna that Chancellor Schuschnigg had hidden troops in all parts of the capital to prepare for an uprising. Meantime he was reported to have ordered Nazi Seyss-Inquart to go to Graz and quiet the Nazis or be dismissed for inefficiency as Minister of Interior...