Word: anschluss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might have been different at Versailles last week. M. Briand ignored Herr Hitler last year, continued his peaceful rapprochement with Germany. But half the shopkeepers in France had been scared out of their wits. The Hitler threat had time to fade and blend, but suddenly came the threat of Anschluss (TIME, March 30, April 6). Dr. Julius Curtius, the German Foreign Minister, negotiated with Austria a plan for a Zollverein (customs union) with Germany, in such heavy-handed fashion that everyone knew Anschluss (a political union) to be his object. France mortally hates & fears to see her former enemies unite...
Finally the President reached the crux of his oration, his protest against the attempt of Germany and Austria to form a zollverein (customs union), leading perhaps to anschluss (political union) of two of the firmest foes of France (TIME, March 30; April...
French Surprise, What France most dreads is Anschluss, a political union of Austria and Germany. Next to that she dreads the formation of an Austro-German Zollverein or "customs union," which was precisely what the two Teutons proposed last week. To bar the possibility of Anschluss or Zollverein, Frenchmen inserted in the Treaty of St. Germain, which beaten Austria signed in 1919, this clause (Part III, Article...
German goods would enter Austria duty free, and vice versa; but exceptions would be made to protect such government monopolies as matches. Finally what the two smart Teutons "really want" is this: Dr. Curtius wants Zollverein as a prelude to Anschluss, the fond political dream of Germans; and Dr. Schober wants to break an opening in the "Chinese Wall" of tariffs which surrounds Austria today, strangling her industries and national life...
Monsignor Seipel opposes Anschluss be cause Germany is so thoroughly Protestant that in a United Austro-German state the Catholic Party would not hold that balance of power which it now holds in Austria. There is bad blood between Dr. Schober and Monsignor Seipel. It was not by accident that the Foreign Minister waited to spring his surprise until the Monsignor, ailing with pleurisy and dia betes, had gone to Switzerland...