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Much elated, Prince von Starhemberg strongly hinted that if Dollfuss did not carry out the Heimwehr program to the limit, he might sell out to the Nazis. Crowed he: "The Chancellor's first job is to clear the Socialists out of Vienna's City Hall. If he fails to do it, the Heimwehr will. If the Heimwehr fails, the Nazis will...
...Soctalists in Austria are already powerless. The Nazis, who desire the annexation of Austria to Germany, are still organized and are becoming more and more aggressive. If the head of the Heimwehr, the Hapsburg Prince Starhemberg, who is against annexation, finds himself unable to control his men, then the Nazi element will gain the upper hand within the Heimwehr. And in this case, the movement towards immediate annexation of Austria by Germany will become unresisted, and official foreign intervention unavoidable...
...been aware that it would mean the eventual abandonment of his own party for Fascism is a movement, which by its very nature excludes any other sort of political development. Consequently, the violent denunciation of Dollfuss's own party, the Christian Socialists, which has just been made by Prince Starhemberg, can come as no surprise to him, for when he resolved to crush the Socialists with the aid of the Heimwehr, he must have known that he could not temporize or adopt any half measures, that he must accept the Fascist doctrine in toto. One may, accordingly, look...
...city. It was rumored that they had been ordered to do so to forestall a Nazi Putsch. If that was so it worked, for not a Nazi showed his head in Eastern Tyrol. But when a Heimwehr mass meeting finally was held, Heimwehr Commander Prince Ernst von Starhemberg was lamb-gentle with the Hitlerites, spent most of his time raking Chancellor Dollfuss for not living up to his September promise to end Parliamentary government in Austria...
...with French politics in their present state of turmoll, that country is able to devote but little attention to foreign affairs. Consequently, it becomes increasingly likely that Dollfuss will not be able to hold out against the Nazi flood for much longer. The antagonistic tone adopted by Prince von Starhemberg, commander of the Heimwehr indicates all too clearly that the moment of collapse cannot be much longer deferred...