Word: anschluss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention which was once devoted solely to the Polish Corridor has, this year, shifted spasmodically but over more frequently to the Anschluss, a term which includes almost any sort of union between Germany and Austria. Europe has been losing many hours of sleep over this question, not simply as a subject for disinterested betting as to whether or not the merger would be effected, but because its completion would undoubtedly mean war. For despite nonchalant reports to the contrary, neither France nor Italy have the slightest intention of allowing the Anschluss...
...position which Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria occupies in this melange is critical and interesting. As the world knows, he is the nominal bulwark against the Anschluss and its proponents, the Nazis. Keyed up by a buoyant egoism which has led him to exploit his four feet eleven inches as a little Napoleon, and supported by considerable religious fervor, he has snatched at every straw to consolidate his position. To take the wind from Nazi sails, he has become a real dictator with actually Fascist principles, though professedly an amorphous Christian Socialism. How long will he last? That...
...better to court a much-needed loan from France. Most important cabinet shift was the appointment as Minister of Public Safety of Major Emil Fey. who has command over all Austria's defense forces. An ardent Royalist, a personal friend of Benito Mussolini, he fights the idea of anschluss (political union) with Germany as reducing Austria to the status of a minor German province...
German Editors raged. The loan agreement, they recalled, pledges Austria not to join Germany in an anschluss (union). That was why Frenchmen, who want above all to keep Austria and Germany apart, voted as they did. "Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria," stormed Berlin's Deutsche Rundschau, "will figure in history as the Judas of the Germanic cause...
...bridging the gap between the actual occurrence of history-making steps in foreign relations, and the appearance of the more thoroughly digested accounts for which one must wait considerable time. With headlines succeeding one another in a rapid course of attractive, yet often superficial heights, a Hoover Moratorium, an Anschluss, the fall of the pound, a visit of Grandi or of Laval, soon are forgotten by a large number of those who constitute public opinion; others who still remember these events in 1931 may nevertheless find in 'World Affairs' clear expositions of what actually happened. The book is primarily...