AUSTRIA: Jabbering-Box

Swagger Adolf Hitler's brown-shirted Fascists scored so heavily in the recent German elections (TIME, Sept. 22), that Europe watched uneasily last week as Austria voted.

In Germany, Austrian-born Herr Hitler is not even a citizen. In Austria his close friend Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg is Minister of Interior—and in most European countries it is this ministry which, controlling the electoral machinery, is said to "make the election." On the eve of polling Prince von Starhemberg, as leader of Austria's Fascist Heimwehr, appeared to possess every...

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