Her next political fact-finding trip was the one to Vienna undertaken after the violence inflicted by the Fascist Dollfuss
government in February 1934.
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Literary Setting
Rose Allatini
In the first of these, RA
reverted to an early practice of writing about recent, and threatening, international politics. Waters' Meet opens with Philippa Langford, nearly forty, good-naturedly escorting (as stand-in for a glamorous and...
Timeline
Mid-February 1934: Martial law was declared in Vienna following...
National or international item
Mid-February 1934
Martial law was declared in Vienna following Nazi terrorist incidents, a demonstration of peasants in support of the coalition government of Engelbert Dollfuss
, and the taking up of arms by Socialists.
25 July 1934: In the words of The Times, the courageous...
National or international item
25 July 1934
In the words of The Times, the courageous little Chancellor of Austria, Engelbert Dollfuss
, died of wounds sustained during a raid on his residence by Nazi
terrorists in a bid to overthrow the government.