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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Seipel, Starhemberg & Dynamite | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...away from Austria. Normally U. S. tourists keep to their spartan schedule of cathedrals, art galleries, shops, with complete disregard of local politics. But since three bloody riots have been staged in the past fortnight by Austria's two pugnacious, irregular armies?the socialist Schutzbund and the reactionary Heim-wehr (TIME, Aug. 19)?and moreover since a third riot resulted in 48 woundings and three deaths, even the most earnest gallery-gazers felt it wise to leave Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Tourists Flee | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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