Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avoiding the blockade of economic sanctions imposed by League states, Italy had to think first of buying war materials from Germany, the great League outsider in Europe, and, secondly, of importing them across Switzerland and Austria...
...Austria was represented at Geneva last week by eloquent old Herr Emeric von Pflüql. Referring to Il Duce's prompt massing of Italian troops on the frontier of Austria, which prevented the backers of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss' assassins from seizing the Government (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), snowy-haired Delegate von Pflüql cried: "Austria will never forget that at a fateful moment in her history it was Italy who, in the best spirit of the League Covenant, helped by her attitude to safeguard the integrity of another League member, my country. Our friendship with Italy...
...best-born pretender in Europe, Otto of Habsburg, ''Emperor of Austria and Apostolic King of Hungary," was so chagrined by George's good luck that he hastened to rebuke Austria for not having done the same for him, indicated that he is the solution to Europe's peace and hoped that Austria would hurry before it was obliged to summon him to rule "a heap of ruins...
...from friendship to fury, thereby weakening France 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...
...little Dr. Benes welcomed with a polite speech at the hotel des Bergues were: the Belgian Foreign Minister, the Turkish Foreign Minister, the Greek Foreign Minister, the Greek Minister to France, the President of the Norwegian Storting, the Ethiopian Delegate to the League and the indomitable Catholic mother of Austria's Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg...