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...Germany, Austrian-born Herr Hitler is not even a citizen. In Austria his close friend Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg is Minister of Interior?and in most European countries it is this ministry which, controlling the electoral machinery, is said to "make the election." On the eve of polling Prince von Starhemberg, as leader of Austria's Fascist Heimwehr, appeared to possess every electoral advantage...
...imminence of the elections [Arch duke Otto will come of age eleven days after the Austrian elections] has created a nervous, excited atmosphere. . . . Prince von Starhemberg ran off the rails...
They were. But Monsignor Seipel met the situation. Prince von Starhemberg, whose words had only one meaning, was made to say that he had been "misunderstood." Seipel Disciple Vaugoin said...
Through the coffee houses of gossiping Vienna spread a rumor that handsome Prince von Starhemberg, fired by the triumphs of his friend, "Handsome Adolf" Hitler, in Germany, has a Heimwehr plot up his sleeve to doublecross the Seipel group which has given him the Ministry of Interior, hopes to manage the election of so many Heimwehr men that he himself will become No. 1 Austrian...
...When a small shipment (16,000 rounds) of Mauser cartridges consigned to him as "Glassware" was seized by the police of Linz last year, Prince von Starhemberg blustered: "I am only sorry that I did not personally fetch this shipment of ammunition as I am accustomed...