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...Prince von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr. was last week offered the post of Minister without portfolio in the Dollfuss Cabinet. Two weeks before he had said: "Reports that I am aiming at the crown are entirely untrue. I will not be a competitor of the Habsburgs. Otto is the only possible Emperor." If Otto should be restored it would bring certain definite advantages to Austria. The minor squabblings of Heimwehr, Christian Socialists, and Dollfuss Front members would end once they had a common figure to rally round. There would be a new, possibly a more glamorous figure...
...Czechs are getting alarmed by Italian influence in Austria. Jugoslavia is rattled. The prospect of an Austro-Hungarian monarchy is not fantastic. Prince von Starhemberg and his following are Monarchists and make no secret of it. What does Mussolini think about that? ... It is all very dangerous. No one in England yet realizes, 1 imagine, the strength of the forces gathering around this cockpit of the Powers." So from Vienna last week wrote Sir Philip Gibbs, a British journalist with such an imposing reputation that he does not hesitate to advise the British Government. In Prague three days later...
Masons, plasterers and glaziers clambered around wooden scaffolding busily repairing gaping holes in Vienna's great municipal apartment houses. Street-corner telephone booths, kiosks and blank walls suddenly blossomed with green and white posters of Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg and Vice Chancellor Emil Fey. From Budapest arrived sleek bespectacled Fulvio Suvich, Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who had been discussing a possible Italian-Austro-Hungarian trade alliance with the Hungarian Government. He closeted himself for several hours with little Chancellor Dollfuss, then rushed off for Rome. In Trieste, earlier in the week, Italian police suddenly...
...Heimwehr men had left Vienna in order to stage a fascist march on Vienna in imitation of Mussolini's famed March on Rome. Chancellor Dollfuss was a party to this, willing to step down to accept either von Starhemberg or Emil Fey as Heimwehr Dictator. Prince von Starhemberg scotched this story himself: "Please deny energetically any rumor of a Heimwehr march on Vienna. There is no need for such a march. We are a part of the Government and fully support the Government...
...most chance of establishing some sort of political stability and could at the same time act as a strong bulwark against Hitlerism would have the united support of the powers and especially of Italy, which is even now making friendly overtures to the Prince. A Fascist Regency headed by Starhemberg satisfies all these conditions. It looks as though the Prince's hour has arrived; and everything seems to indicate that he will take advantage of it to the utmost. NEMO...