Word: anschlussed
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...which would have to send back to her Italian frontier the troops she withdrew and sent to guard her German frontier after the Laval-Mussolini accord in Rome (TIME, Jan. 14). Simultaneously Italy, which has been the chief bulwark against absorption of Austria by Germany would agree to that Anschluss, and Adolf Hitler might then make his first territorial gain not in some remote colonial sphere but in Europe...
...Mussolini's decision will be an assurance of security to the small powers in Europe; Italy seems to be the only country in Europe which says what she means, and through this latest act ought to strengthen the other countries by checking the Nazi Anschluss in Austria...
Another international event which seems to be in that land of sunshine, the offing, is an Anschluss, or union between Germany and Austria. Even the German A instructors admit this. International finances being what they are, we wouldn't be surprised on the day that the amalgamation takes place to read a little note in the Personals columns of the metropolitan newspapers to the effect that Germany and Austria, formerly doing business individually and separately, are now doing business together, and that neither will be responsible for any debts contracted by the new corporation...
...League as a bluff to gain some of these concessions, but it is not certain that the bluff has failed. The concessions she wants are equality of armaments, either by Allied disarmament or by permission to rearm; the Saar Basin, the Polish Corridor, her former colonies and the Anschluss with Austria. If armament equality were conceded her, and the Nazis rose to power in Austria without so much outside aid as to precipitate a general European war, and the Saar reverted to her in 1935 as it is certain to do, Germany might forego her other demands and disappear...
...Austro-German Anschluss depends now primarily upon whether the Nazi element in the Austrian Heimwehr can gain the upper hand," said Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...