Word: vaugoin
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...more colorful. When the Nazis came to power in Germany one of the most successful methods of gaining popular support for their anti-Semitic campaign was the forced bankruptcy of many large Jewish firms in Germany. Phönix-Wien, apart from its handsome board chairman, General Carl Vaugoin, was almost exclusively Jewish...
Beside the assumption of five portfolios by Millimetternich, the most important facts about the new Cabinet were the disappearance of Agrarian Leader Franz Winkler as Vice Chancellor; the shelving of old General Karl Vaugoin from the Ministry of Defense to the Directorship of the State Railways; and the shifting of the Heimwehr's hard-hitting Major Fey from the Ministry of Public Security to the Vice Chancellorship. Agrarian Winkler was shelved for his growing opposition to the entire Dollfuss program. General Vaugoin (generally credited with rebuilding the Austrian army), for listening too sympathetically to offers of Socialist...
...Christian he has consistently opposed feeding Austrian Nazis their own medicine, such as terrorist raids and barbed wire concentration camps for political prisoners. There will be no open anti-Semitism from any Government of which Engelbert Dollfuss is Chancellor. More subtly, his Minister of Defense, elderly General Karl Vaugoin last week issued a general order. A crucifix must be hung in every room of every military barracks, a picture of the Virgin Mary must be embroidered, painted or printed on all regimental flags, all battalion and company guidons...
...full strength allowed under the Treaty of St. Germain, "as long as the special conditions exist." as long as Adolf Hitler is Chancellor of Germany. Permission included a good deal more than adding another 8,000 men to Austria's long-term volunteers. Excitable old General Karl Vaugoin, Minister of War, blurted...
...sacrosanct War treaties, and if Austria could win revision on a small point, here was an opening wedge for Germany! Loudly they insisted that they were not permitting compulsory service, that the new volunteers were to be admitted only for as long as the "special conditions" lasted. Chastened General Vaugoin subsided, knowing that in three years Austria will have not 30,000 men, but a trained reserve of 78,000 men and, if the Allies will only shut their eyes to forbidden siege guns and planes, a real army...