The Washington times., 1934-02-14

~WiH War Come" Knickerbocker
outlines AuStrid'S position on the
European tDGr checEerb0Grd and
presents an ercluSiUe interUietD
NTH the doughty Austrian chan
OeIIor, t0ho is detyi7lg Adolf Hitler.
By H. r. KNICKERBOCKER
international News Service Staff
Correspondent.
kCopyriEht. 1884. by International News
Service. Reproduction in whole OF
part forbidden).
VIENNA, Feb. 14.-AuStria to-
HAy is struggling in a conflict
Sry like civil T:ar.
But the question Europe Is
liking is what effect this Strug-
b will have on the far greater
Haestion:
"will war, real war, come
Sn EurOpe?"
Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is
trying crushing the Socialists. His
lron-jawed adjutant, Major Emil
Fey, has driven the Socialists
out of office and with all the
military forces of the country
Under arms, with rifles and bay
6netS, barbed-wire, machine guns
and even artillery, has initiated
6ction utterly to destroy the
party that once ruled Vienna.
Aimed at the Nazis
This blow, however, though
& falls today on the Socialists,
b ultimately aimed at the NazlS.
In the long run, it is intended to
help DollfusS keep Austria inde-
pendent Of Germany.
Will it succeed in that pur-
pose?
In smashing the socialists the
Dollfuss government expects to
do three things:
First-satisfy Prince Star
hemberg and his HelmWehr
who furnish Dollfuss his chief
semi-military support. and who
have demanded the destruction
Of the Socialist party as the
price Of their loyalty to the
government.
second-To remove the
Nazis' last excuse to charge
Dollfuss with being in league
with the "Reds."
Third-To show the Naz1S
how strong the government Is
and that it could strike the
Nazis Just as hard as it Is
striking the Socialists now.
Tried by Won Papen
But Chancellor Won Papen tried
these same tactics in Germany.
There. too, the government first
removed the Socialists from the
field, but the Nazis seized the
fruits of victory.
win this happen in Austria?
# Dollfuss goes, the Nazls
home, # the Nazis come, trouble
homes with them. Maybe war.
Europe thinks in these terms
nf the Austrian question. The
reason why Adolf Hitler wants
Austria are the reasons why
ftaly, France, Czechoslovakia and
England do not want him to
have it.
They are determined to keep
him out, but not as determined
rs he is to get in.
There is only one man in
central Europe who is just as
determined to keep Hitler out as
Hitler is determined to get in.
Diminutive Statesman
That is Engelbert DollfusS,
chancellor Of Austria, minister Of
foreign affairs, defense, the in
&erior, and agriculture. IL years
old, youngest head Of a govern
ment in Europe, scarcely five
feet high, smallest man in public
life in the world.
Great powers have trembled be-
fore Germany. Austria under Doll
fuss has not trembled Men big
enough to make three of Dollfuss
have covered physically before the
threat Of the brown shirt storm
troops.
Dollfuss, smaller than the small
est brown shirt alive, has dared
the whole 2,500,000 Of them to
"come on"
The help of the great powers
has been essential in maintaining
Austrian independence. But with
out Dollfuss the great powers prob
ably would have to resign Aus
tria to her fate.
Always Looks Tired
He does not look as small as
the stories about him. He laughs
the hardest at jokes about his size
Half Vienna the other day was
asking:
"Have you heard about the
latest attempt on DOllfuSS' life?"
''NO, what?"
''HiS bOdyguard found a mouse
trap in the chancellOr's bed.
room"
He Is simply a small man. When
he came around the table in the
Metternich room of the Ballhaus
Platz his waist measured abou1
level with the table top. He smiles,
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