Word: heimwehr
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Fortnight ago Ernst Riidiger Prince von Starhemberg, 37, was Vice Chancellor of Austria, leader of the potent Heimwehr, friend of Benito Mussolini and, to a great extent, dictator of his trouble-tossed little country. Last week the same young man was ignominiously booted out as Vice Chancellor, his private army was ordered disbanded and he lost the leadership of the Fatherland Front. Angry and vengeful at this sudden turn of affairs, he went to the Vienna South Station, entrained for Rome. Scarcely had his train pulled out than the final insult fell: by order of bespectacled Federal Chancellor Kurt...
...Semitic march around the Ringstrasse. Word leaked out that Heimwehrmen, in civilian clothes, had been told off to break the parade up with rioting when it reached the Heldenplatz. Scrawny Chancellor von Schuschnigg promptly showed a personal courage few knew he possessed. He led the parade himself. Even so, Heimwehr-men followed instructions, threw rocks, howled "Pfni Schuschnigg! R-r-r-r-aus mit ihm! Hang Schuschnigg!" Three people were stabbed. Mounted, police swept up 70 cursing Heimwehrmen...
...young man's none too thoughtful career. Hardly was it off the wires than the British and French Ambassadors came rushing round with angry protests. Kurt von Schuschnigg acted quickly, knowing that he had the support of the Catholic Church and the regular army to back him against Heimwehr and Nazi alike...
...another. In its makeup Dr. von Schuschnigg took for himself not only the Chancellorship but also the portfolios of Foreign Affairs and War. New Vice Chancellor was a Starhemberg subordinate, Minister for the Interior Eduard Baar von Baarenfels, who was also named Commander of Starhemberg's technically disbanded Heimwehr. For Vice Commander of the Vienna Heimwehr Chancellor Schuschnigg passed over the-fawning application of Major Emil Fey and picked Baron Alfonse de Kloss whose wife is a cousin of Archduke Otto, Habsburg Pretender to the throne of Austria...
...Heimwehr...