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Because Nazi suspects had been found in high Heimwehr posts, it seemed likely for a few days that youthful Prince von Starhemberg would be shelved as commander of the Heimwehr in favor of his far more effective subordinate, Vice Chancellor Emil Fey. Prince von Starhemberg saved his job and proved his loyalty to the Dollfuss regime with a blast to his followers attacking Hitlerism...
Totally unready to die, Chancellor Dollfuss was last week busily stuffing up the chinks in his ''Patriotic Front" coalition against Naziism. Already head of the army, police and gendarmerie, he took over the headship of Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg's "White Fascist" Heimwehr. In payment he made Prince von Starhemberg deputy chairman of the Patriotic Front. Thus he prevented the hot-headed Prince from going off half-cocked and had the Heimwehr men to help him break any strikes the Socialists may call. He dissolved the Socialist singing society, the Sängerbund...
Back in Vienna the Dollfuss government was warily picking its way from crisis to crisis. Dissatisfaction of the powerful Heimwehr was settled fortnight ago when Heimwehr Leader Prince von Starhemberg announced that the tentative outline of the new Dollfuss "corporative state" was acceptable to him. Last week the Heimwehr announced its complete absorption in the Dollfuss "Patriotic Front" and its own dissolution as a political party. "This makes the further existence of other parties unnecessary," read their announcement...
...next step brought the Dollfuss government smack up against a great and solid mass, the Socialists of Vienna. Viennese Socialists have tolerated, even aided, Engelbert Dollfuss because they know that much as he dislikes them they would receive even shorter shrift from a Nazi government. Last week Prince von Starhemberg shrilled at a Heimwehr meeting...
...grey-jacketed private army, the Heimwehr, is divided into three groups. One part, under former Governor Anton Rintelen of Styria, is so frankly pro-Nazi that the Governor was hastily made Ambassador to Italy a few weeks ago. The rest are divided in allegiance between Prince von Starhemberg (founder but now only nominally leader of the entire Heimwehr) and Major Fey, commander of the Vienna district. The growing power of Major Fey is one reason for Prince von Starhemberg's ominous muttering against the Dollfuss Government in recent weeks. The entire Cabinet shift was a gamble on whether...