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...skepticism of League statesmen was understandable. Doubtless they had reminded Dr. Streeruwitz of last month's bloody clashes between Austria's two irregular armies, the reactionary Heimwehr and the socialist Schutzbund, both bands of political zealots eager to seize the state by a coup d'etat (TIME, Aug. 19 et seq.). Last week after observing a brief truce, Heimwehr and Schutzbund leaders were again roaring threats at each other...
Last week Austrian businessmen seemed to have accomplished what the Austrian government and the Austrian press have been unable to do: put an end to the imminent threats of civil war between Austria's two pugnacious private armies, the reactionary Heimwehr and the Socialist Schutzbund (TIME, Aug. 19, et seq.). Fortnight ago when Heimwehr-Schutzbund feeling was at its tensest, members of the Association of Austrian Industrialists marched to the office of Chancellor Streeruwitz to point out that rioting between the two groups was damaging Austria's credit abroad, driving money-spending tourists from the country, ruining Austrian prosperity...
They did not stop with the Chancellor. The Industrialists visited prominent leaders of the Heimwehr and Schutzbund and talked long, hard, pointedly to them. So effective were these little conferences that last week blustering Dr. Pfrimer, loudest of the Heimwehr leaders, explained that when he had boasted in previous speeches of a "triumphant march on Vienna with rifles in hand" what he had really meant was merely "a spiritual march of Heimwehr ideals...
...recently an active businessman (textiles), listened uncomfortably to the anxious shopkeepers, then called a conference of his Ministers. From this Cabinet session came an announcement that "the misgiving noted in economic circles at home and alarming reports in the newspapers lack justification." It was announced that in the future Schutzbund and Heimwehr demonstrations will not be allowed in the same city on the same...
Well knowing that the Austrian Government, with an army reduced to a scattered force of 30,000 men by the Treaty of St. Germain, cannot enforce the Cabinet's orders, bristling Schutzbund and Heimwehr leaders grew more than ever violent in language as the week progressed. Cried fiery Dr. Pfrimer, Vienna Heimwehr Commander: "For our brothers whom the Schutzbund have slain, the Heimwehr will take revenge in a form that will be remembered for many a long...