Evening star., 1934-07-26
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An Other States and Canada.
The Doom Of Dollfuss.

Inc DOOM OI UOlllusa.
Conditions in Austria long have
been so ripe for catastrophe explosion
that the assassination Of Chancellor
Dollfuss by his Nazi foes has hardly
taken the world by surprise, despite
It's tragic audiences OF immediate
moment is the extent 10 which Hit
lerized Germany is proved responsible
for Wednesdays sanguinary events at
Vienna. and of even greater gravity rs
the question whether Europe, espe-
cially Italy will see in them tustihca-
tion for armed Intervention in Austria.
The German government. as was TO
be expected. promptly disavows any
connection with the viennese coup
d'etat, dismissing II as q purely in
ternal affair, explsinable by the sim
pie fact that eight out of ten Aus
trians are Nazls."
The world is likely TO share the be-
lief that Hitler's Nazts are morally
responsible for DollfuSS' doom and the
incalculable train OF developments it
has set in motion. For the past year
German NaziS have conducted within
and outside OF Austria an unblushing
campaign against Dollfuss and In
favor of anschluSs (union) with the
Reich. II is significant that after
numbering the chancellor in his
Offices the one hundred and forty
four Nazis who seized the premises
and overpowered all government occu-
pants, including Maj. Fey. former
vice chancellor and defense minister,
negotiated for their own safe conduct
to Germany.
Meantime, elements identified with
the Dollfuss cause remain in control.
The late chancellors friend and min
lister of education, DR., Kurt Schnusch-
nigg, has been appointed chancellor
by President Miklas. The NaZis who
raided and killed at the chancellery
are under arrest. Martial law pre-
walls, and the Heimwehr Fascist
Home Guard) and the regular ma
tional army are loyal to the constf-
tuted authorities, though the precise
intentions of Prince Won Starhemberg,
vice chancellor and Heimwehr leader,
are somewhat obscure All in all, the
Nazi "putsch' has failed Of its COM
plete purpose. 1t eliminated Dollfuss.
but the Swastika does not yet wave
over Vienna.
Austria nevertheless is reported to
have appealed to Europe to guarantee
her integrity. Mussolini has ordered
his northern Italian forces, number
ing seventy-five thousand troops, to
be held in readiness to march into
Austria. Italy has no desire to see a
powerful Germany, expanded by union
with Austria, neighbor on the Bren-
, ner Pass, pressing down toward
Trieste and the Adriatic. Czechoslo-
vakia cannot view with composure a
Germsny-Austria gripping her, vice.
like, on practically all sides. France
Shudders at the prospect of an ag-
grandized Reich, as do Rumania,
YugoSlsvia and Poland,
With the passing of Dollfuss as
victim OF Nszi bullets. the Nah peril
in decrepit Austria becomes a grim
reality which Europe, in the interest
of peace, must face with resolution
and without delay. BY the irony of
fate, it was on July 25, 1914. that
Austrias ultimatum to Serbia applied
the final match to the European pow
der barrel. Exactly twenty years later
TO the day. events at Vienna kindled
q situation that may lead to another
confisgrstion unless craftsmanship
proves itself fire-extinguisher be-
times. NaziiSm has ceased to be a
purely German issue. 1t has become
an international problem, on which
world peace depends DollfuSS record
will not disclose the little chancellor
as entirely blamelesS for the condi-
uons that produced chaos and conflict
in Austria. but history can hardly fail
TO record that the plight in which
that emaciated land now finds itself
Is primarily Of Nszi origin.