Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France was as anxious to keep Italy from a too elaborate, too expensive campaign in Abyssinia for another reason. Keeping Nazi Germany from absorbing Austria and growing too big is a vital point in France's foreign policy. Italy long ago undertook to do that chore for her. With her own vivid memories of the expenses and difficulties of an African campaign, France was frightened last week that if Italy were once embarked on an Abyssinian campaign she would be forced to send so many troops to Africa that Adolf Hitler would have the chance of a lifetime...
...life walrus-mustached Josef Pilsudski was faithful to but one ideal, the strength and independence of Poland. With the collapse of Germany, Austria and Russia in 1917-18, he turned promptly to France for assistance against the Bolsheviks. In this he was helped mightily by lion-maned Pianist Paderewski who won the sympathy of Woodrow Wilson and other Allied leaders. In 1920 when Marshal Pilsudski was at war with Russia in an attempt to drive Soviet troops from East Galicia, and found his troops beaten at every turn, it was the French military mission, and in particular Marshal Foch...
...nine he was modeling clay robins, baking them by an open fire. He loved to skin weasels so that he might study their muscular structure. To study ceramics Russell Aitken went to the Cleveland Art School rather than an Eastern university. He has worked in porcelain factories in both Austria and Germany as an invited student...
...guide in the Ontario woods, been adopted by the Ojibway Indians with the tribal name of Lackwinni Mangoon (Lone Wolf). He teaches sculpture and plays polo at White Sulphur. He once flew a planeload of pottery from Cleveland to Newark, paddled through Germany in a kayak, crossed Austria on skis, engaged in sabre duels with the student Korps Hilaritas of Vienna. Polo, aviation, duck shooting and skeet are his favorite recreations...
...bustling little Lourdes in the French Pyrenees last week moved a vast throng of pious folk including 60 members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, silver-helmeted Vatican guards, healthy pilgrims and ailing pilgrims, devout European socialites, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, and that Blackest of Catholic nobles, ex-Empress Zita of Austria bringing her boy Otto, Archduke pretender. In Lourdes 77 years ago, Catholics believe, a peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous saw an apparition of the Blessed Virgin. Bernadette is now of the blessed company of saints (TIME, Dec. 11, 1933) and the Grotte de Massabielle, scene of the apparition...