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...agitated Corps Diplomatique. They alluded neither to the fact that the new Chancellor is Seipel Disciple Karl Vaugoin, nor to the fact that the new Foreign Minister is Monsignor Seipel himself, but to the astounding fact that the new Minister of Interior is Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg...
This reckless, blustering young aristocrat is one of the closest friends of Aus-trian-born Adolf Hitler, Fascist bogyman of Germany. His castle, moldering and feudal Schloss Waxenberg perched on a crag above Linz, is well stocked with rifles, machine guns, ammunition.* Prince von Starhemberg in fine is the chieftain of Austria's irregular and reactionary Heimwehr, well drilled veterans of numerous bloody clashes with the equally irregular Socialist Schutzbund (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929 et seq.). That Monsignor Seipel and all he stands for should want Prince von Starhemberg to be Minister of Interior is a fact with the pregnancy...
...Heimwehr, Attack!" In Austria, as in many European countries, the Ministry of Interior supervises the elections, and Austria will go to the polls on Nov. 9. Within two days after his appointment, Minister of Interior Prince von Starhemberg manifestoed as follows to his Heim wehr: "Today we stand in the Government, tomorrow we must conquer Parliament, not to rest at ease in an armchair but to build up a new State, a Heimwehr State, on the ruins of the old Parliament of parties. Comrades, close your ranks for the Heimwehr attack...
...this seemed a little vague, however menacing, Prince von Starhemberg also said specifically that the Heimwehr had "laid its hand [himself] on the rudder" of government "to hold that rudder firmly for the Heimwehr itself with iron resolve not to release it even under a Socialist majority...
Waiting for them at the gate was Prince Ernst Rüiger von Starhemberg, a Gemsbart (beard of a chamois) jutting proudly from the back of his green felt hat, his grey and green hunter's coat tightly bone-buttoned...