Word: terroristic
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...animal die!" Last week after more than a year of terrorist Nazi bombings in Austria, Chancellor Dollfuss had reluctantly enforced for the first time his recent drastic decree-law providing death for civilians caught with explosives. The first terrorist caught and hanged was neither an Austrian nor a Nazi but a wild-eyed Czechoslovak Socialist, one Josef Gerl, who bellowed from the gallows as the noose was put about his neck, ''Long live Austrian liberty...
This hanging emphasized the delicate position of Chancellor Dollfuss' "Christian Fascist" Cabinet striving to hold the balance between armed Nazis and Socialists in troubled Austria. In Germany the exiled Austrian Nazi leader, leather-lunged Alfred Frauenfeld, promptly took Austria's first terrorist hanging as his text for an ominous threat: "The moment Dollfuss hangs a Nazi civil war will break out in Austria...
...Nazi terrorism last week. In the marble hall of the Provincial Government Building at Salzburg a bomb went off outside the door of the Provincial Director of Public Safety, blowing a great hole in the wall. In Vienna $5,000 damage to the famed City Hall resulted from a terrorist fire brand...
...Italy, the trial of four men in Rome last week showed the world the stability of the Fascist regime. Leonardo Bucciglioni, Renato Cianca, Claudio Cianca and Pasquale Capasso were charged with the most serious crime in the Fascist calendar: plotting against the life of Il Duce, and exploding a terrorist bomb inside St. Peter's. Within the past decade more than one man has been tied to a chair and shot in the back for such an offense...
Premier Duca was a member of the Liberal Party, oldtime machine of the famed Bratianu family and long bitterly opposed to the restoration of King Carol. Lately he was won over to the King's side and set valiantly to work suppressing anti-Semitism and a terrorist organization known as the Iron Guard. Beyond question it was the Iron Guard that killed him. Martial law was declared throughout the country; all army leaves were canceled; an iron-clad censorship was clapped on the Press. Detectives went out in squads, picking up every known member of the Iron Guard...