Word: anschluss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before the Anschluss, General Brauchitsch is supposed to have told Adolf Hitler: "Mein Führer, if you want to use the Army to support a bluff by military pressure, you can depend on us. For more serious business, we are not yet ready." A few days later he had taken over command of the Austrian Army. In September 1938, he said the same thing in almost the same words-and marched into the Sudetenland at the head of the German troops. He occupied Bohemia and Moravia last spring, but still the Army was not ready. Last month...
...Moore predicted the exact month in which the British General Strike would begin: May 1926. He foretold Anschluss between Germany and Austria a year in advance. Nevertheless, last month in the Sunday Dispatch Old Moore said flatly: "During August . . . there is no doubt that Mr. Chamberlain will steer the Ship...
BETRAYAL IN CENTRAL EUROPE-G. E. R. Gedye-Harper ($3.50). Fluent, heated, colorful account of Austria from 1925 through Anschluss, with a bitter windup on Czecho-Slovakia, by the much-expelled foreign correspondent of the New York Times...
Wagner: Die Walkure, Act 2 (Berlin State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, Bruno Seidler-Winkler and Bruno Walter conducting, with Lotte Lehmann, Marta Fuchs, Margaret Klose, Lauritz Melchoir and Hans Hotter; Victor: 20 sides). Austria's Anschluss in 1938 interrupted a magnificent recording of Die Walküre in the middle of the second act. Already completed were Sieglinde's scenes, sung by anti-Nazi Lotte Lehmann, conducted by Jew Walter. After Anschluss the rest of the act was filled out by a 100% Nazi cast. Despite this patchwork, the result is good enough to make a Wagnerphile...
...there has been a new kind of Anschluss let's hear about...