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...more than four months, the Socialists and People's Party negotiators met almost daily in the ornate Ballhaus Palace to argue about the Cabinet, and all the while Austria hummed along happily under a provisional government that was precisely in the middle of the road. Last week the bickering ended at last with the People's Party on the short end. The able, personable Kreisky stayed on as Foreign Minister, and this victory for the Socialists was countered only by the addition of a few People's Party state secretaries to the Trade and Justice Ministries. Another...
...Information. It had been better than his World War I service as an intelligence officer ("Nothing secret about it! Just questioning prisoners!"). It had almost satisfied his romantic dreams of 1925, when, as a new correspondent in Vienna, he had stood in awe before the Chancellery on the Ballhaus Platz, where Metternich had planned his tricks. "The very address," he wrote later with characteristic Gedye gusto, "was an echo of the spy thrillers by William Le Queux, who had filled my boyhood with the romance of international intrigue...
Ever since Austrian Nazis seized Vienna's ' Ballhaus and killed Chancellor Engelbert Dullfuss last year, towering, small-mouthed Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg has blamed the murder of his little friend morally on hollow-eyed Major Emil ("Bloodhound") Fey, who was caught by the Nazis with Dullfuss but did nothing to save him. Last week these two potent men tugged two ways at Austria, under the distracted Chancellorship of disheartened Kurt Schuschnigg...
...Austria." Such an act was irregular in the extreme, since Nazis and their movement are outlawed in Austria. But von Papen had his orders from Berlin and Adolf Hitler is Austrian-born. Armed with this list, top-hatted, tail-coated Diplomat von Papen arrived at Austria's famed Ballhaus ("White House"), heavy with historic memories of Metternich and the Congress of Vienna. Very small in the big rooms looked Dr. Schuschnigg. With brutal directness the German Minister said that he "advised" the Schuschnigg Cabinet to resign and appoint as their successors the Nazi Cabinet slate approved by Herr Hitler...
Testifying further, Major Fey gave the lie to the new Government's claim that Dr. Schuschnigg did not know the Nazis had killed Dollfuss when he promised them safe conduct to Germany, a promise which the Government failed to keep "on the ground that it was conditional on the Ballhaus being evacuated without the death of anyone within." Three times under cross-examination Major Fey stubbornly repeated, "The promise was made without conditions of any kind after those who made it knew that the Chancellor was dead. I repeatedly insisted that this promise should be kept...