Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...associated won 66 seats, seven less than at the last election. In contrast to this meagre Fascist showing, the old guard Socialist Party of Austria, the Social Democrats, won 72 seats, one more than they held in the last Parliament. Finally the party groups aligned under grand old Austrian State Police Chief Johann Schober, whom the Catholic-Heimwehr forces ousted as Prime Minister six weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 6) won 19 seats, the chamber totaling...
...Austrian general elections...
...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...
...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...