Word: austria
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Austria and Denmark have undertaken university extension, while France is at present studying England s method. with a view of adopting...
...Government ownership would be the natural outcome of the present system, and is practicable.- (a) Cases of Prussia, Austria, Belgium and Austria...
...chancellor is raising appropriations to carry on a socialistic civil war. The foreign policy, which under Bismarck took the firm form of the Triple Alliance, and an understanding with Russia, has not been weakened by the emperor's clumsy visit to Rome. Germanic ideas are losing ground in Austria and the Pope has practically gone over to France...
Prior to the formation of the Triple Alliance the encroachments of Russia had filled Austria with distrust, and for self defence she made an alliance with Germany. A third power was needed and Italy completed the trio...
Italy had two great reasons for joining this alliance. The treachery of France in regard to Tunis had alarmed her and she felt that she needed the co-operation of two such powers as Germany and Austria. Then, too, her domestic affairs were in an unsettled condition. Opposite the Quirinal where resides Humbert of Savoy, King of Italy, stands the Vatican, that immense palace with its 11,000 rooms, the home of the Pope. The Pope had never yielded his claim to the temporal as well as the spiritual control of Rome, and was ill content with the privileges granted...