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...ordered disbanded and he lost the leadership of the Fatherland Front. Angry and vengeful at this sudden turn of affairs, he went to the Vienna South Station, entrained for Rome. Scarcely had his train pulled out than the final insult fell: by order of bespectacled Federal Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg the swashbuckling Prince was made Patron of the Fatherland Front's Mother's Help Section...
...rivalry between Militarist Starhemberg and Civilian Schuschnigg reached a near climax with the Prince's attempt to wreck the Chancellor's Cabinet through the Phönix-Wien insurance scandal (TIME, April 20, et seq.). Politically it was a squib. More serious trouble occurred fortnight ago when Chancellor von Schuschnigg's own private army, the Catholic Freiheitsbund. staged an anti-Semitic march around the Ringstrasse. Word leaked out that Heimwehrmen, in civilian clothes, had been told off to break the parade up with rioting when it reached the Heldenplatz. Scrawny Chancellor von Schuschnigg promptly showed a personal...
This exuberant telegram with its gratuitous sneers at democracy was possibly the stupidest move of that young man's none too thoughtful career. Hardly was it off the wires than the British and French Ambassadors came rushing round with angry protests. Kurt von Schuschnigg acted quickly, knowing that he had the support of the Catholic Church and the regular army to back him against Heimwehr and Nazi alike...
Vienna promptly overflowed with rumors of the number of potent Austrians who had been bribed by Phönix-Wien's mysterious manager, the late Dr. Wilhelm Berliner. Last week Chancellor Schuschnigg revealed that he held a powerful counter-weapon against Prince von Starhemberg, the actual, 24-page list of those whom Phönix-Wien had reached with cash euphemistically described as ''loans" "stock sales" and "insurance policies." This lifesaver, which he had been handed by a high Phönix-Wien official, Chancellor Schuschnigg proceeded to publish...
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