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...field guns that he sent to prevent an Austrian Nazi Putsch after the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 6). Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, Austrian Vice Chancellor, had just reported in Rome to Il Duce that Austria is now quiet. This week the new Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, is due in Italy to attend the annual war games as Premier Mussolini's guest. Last week the Italian troops which marched away from Austria did not march far. Most went back to their original bases at Trieste, Udine, Bolzano, from which they can reach Austria in three hours...
More than 500 Austrians died in the civil war which Nazis started in Styria Province at the signal of a bullet fired into heroic little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss' spinal cord (TIME, Aug. 6). Last week the new Government of stern, thrifty Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg took the amazing step of compelling one man to pay the entire cost of Styria's civil...
...Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. It was doubtless Thyssen who caused A. M. G. to switch over to what, for the present at least, has proved the losing side. Reputedly last week it was the Heimwehr, furious at their former backer, who demanded that Chancellor Schuschnigg squeeze the 'Iron Mountain" for a cool $70,000. According to a Heimwehr manifesto, "If the Government fails to make its fist felt by the all-powerful Director Apold of Alpine Montan Gesellschaft, all the Government's efforts against the Nazis in Styria will prove vain...
Same day in Vienna the new Austrian Government of Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg made a belated gesture of appeasement to Austrian Socialists by letting out of jail their beloved leader, Dr. Karl Seitz, for years Mayor of Vienna. His health has been failing fast and seemingly the Government feared popular indignation should he die imprisoned. Looking worn and broken, 65-year-old Socialist Seitz was spirited secretly to the Auersperg sanatorium. There two detectives were stationed at his bedside and two police men set to guard the door of his private ward. "I am a poor schoolteacher on a pension...
These words in the Vienna Reichspost, newsorgan of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, showed the real feelings of the new Austrian Government which last week finally accepted as persona grata Chancellor Adolf Hitler's new Minister to Austria, Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen...