The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16

a Socialist. Vienna's municipal
government has been Socialist for
years. Burgomasters of many i'm
portant cities were commanding
officers in the revolution.
During the fighting scores OF
governments in small towns were
overthrown. The next move is ex-
pected to be replacement of all So
cialist administrations, and some
others, with men directly under
DollfuSS.
Then, the drive toward a Fascist
state-guild government, the Doll
ss-Starhemberg Christian Staen-
disch state. 1t will mean abolition
of parliament and rule under a new
constitution by representatives of
different categories of citizens, pro-
| LESSONS. industries, with a strong
dictatorial government.
Made Ideal Team
DolIfuss, the tiny, west pocket
chancellor" of peasant stock, and
the tall, handsome Starhemberg.
whose noble ancestry is traced back
nearly 300 years, represent a con
trast that makes them an ideal
working team.
DollfuSs, courageous, eloquent,
tenacious, diplomatic, has become
stronger during twenty-one months
as chancellor. Starhemberg, blunt,
a leader of men who, like himself,
do not like politics " politicians,
has in his HeimWehr storm troop
ers the strongest organized body in
Austria.
1t is obvious that Starhemberg is
the force driving directly at a
Fascist state. In most of his
speeches he is frank in his state
ment that he and the heimwehr,
or home guard, are behind Dollfuss
just so long as he is for FaScism.
Dollfuss is 4 feet IL inches in
height, Al, brown haired, gray eyed,
mustached. He astonished his hum
bic family and friends by emerging
from the World war in the high
caste Austrian army a first lieu
tenant Of Alpine chasseur machine
gunners and a hero.
DoIlfuss Given Credit
To Dollfuss goes most of the
credit for yesterdays collapse Of the
Socialist revolution.
His imprisoned wireless appeals.
dinned into the ears of Viennese
again and again, to cease shedding
Austrian blood in a fight which the
state must win, caused thousands
of Socialists to surrender.
S-tarhemberg was in at the birth
of the Nazi movement. The thirty
four-year-old head Of the great
house of Starhemberg was just old
enough to get into the army at the
end of the war. Adolf Hitler, like
Starhemberg, is Austrian by birth.
His and Starhemberg's mutual
enmity is the bitter enmity of old
friends. For Starhemberg and Hit
Ter we're together in the famous
Munich beer cellar putsch of
1923, which caused world laughter.
Bitter Enemy of Hitler
Hitler went to a fortress. STAR
hemberg escaped over the frontier.
Back home, eager and patriotic.
his mind still in the formative stage,
he came under Austrian NATIONAL
ist influence. He emerged as a
Fascist. and a bitter enemy-nke
the Nazis-of Marxism.
He began forming his Helmwehr.
using war veterans associations as
a nucleus. In 1927 he and a few
others did yeoman service in the
Socialist revolutionary riots. Three
years later they emerged with a full
Fascist program.
There are two other men high in
the DollfusS- union
who will be heard from. They are
Major Emil Fey, vice-chancellor and
minister of public security. and
Prince Observation-Disclosures, un-
dersecretary of state.
They are firm Fascists, but they
are monarchists, too, and they are
working for eventual restoration Of
a Hapsburg on the throne.