Word: reichspost
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These words in the Vienna Reichspost, newsorgan of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, showed the real feelings of the new Austrian Government which last week finally accepted as persona grata Chancellor Adolf Hitler's new Minister to Austria, Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen...
Ardent Teuton longings for a union with Italy (and "revenge" on France) caused German newsorgans of all sorts to chime in. "The French treat the Chancellor of Austria like a Negro chieftain!" stormed Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. "Nobody protested," cried the Catholic Reichspost, "when in 1932 Czechoslovakia sent to Jugoslavia through Austria enough arms alone to equip several army corps!" Amid frenzied pother the Austrian Cabinet of Chancellor Dollfus tottered, and excited Europe scarcely had time to be alarmed last week by sly Dr. Benes' new Great Power...
...Cabinet and curb the influence of the potent Socialist element in Vienna. Since a two-thirds majority in Parliament is needed to amend the Constitution and since Socialist Deputies number over one-third, their opposition has always blocked all such amendments. Last week the Heimwehr's truculent Reichspost-official mouthpiece of the strongest man in Austria, stern, bald, beak-nosed onetime Chancellor Ignaz Seipel-proposed a bullying solution of the Constitutional issue: Let Parliament be convened in some other city than Socialist Vienna. Heimwehr troops with pistol and bludgeon would then keep the Socialist Deputies from, attending. In their...
Blusteringly, Dr. Julius Deutsch, Socialist leader of the Schutzbund countered the Reichspost. "Let them try it," he cried. "Wherever Parliament is removed there will be enough democrats ready to defend the Constitution and democracy...
MORTAL STAB TO AUSTRIA!! screamed virtually every newspaper in Vienna, except the Reichspost, circumspect Roman Catholic organ of tall, stern, stoop-shouldered, beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria...
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