AUSTRIA: Cowardice & Compromise

Spunky little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who rules Austria amid the incessant banging of Nazi bombs, heard himself flayed by radio from Munich last week as a coward.

The Munich radio attack was in violation of Adolf Hitler's promise to Benito Mussolini to keep Nazi hands off Austria (TIME, June 25). But Der Führer apparently found it necessary to have an anonymous speaker explain to the Austrian people just how right he was to put down the "Roehm Mutiny" by bloody executions (see p. 15).

"Dollfuss has more than once been faced by treachery in...

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