Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, disarmed as was Germany by post-War treaties, the Conference agreed to "inform" all European nations of their "desires" (i. e. to rearm). As a moral lesson to Germany, the Powers intend to grant to the three disarmed nations, after "friendly negotiation," the kind of rearmament they rebuke Hitler for having "seized...
...days later, no Great Power having protested, sap of courage rose in the Schuschnigg Cabinet. For the first time since the War, they boldly revived Kaiser Franz Josef's habit of ordering on a given day "spring parades" of all his troops in every provincial capital of Imperial Austria...
Adolf Hitler's treaty-wrecking example boomed down the Danube last week and emboldened Handsome Adolf's native land to rearm too. Little Austria's "defy" to the Powers that defeated Imperial Austria was however, a discreet and muted echo of big Germany's. Timidly Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg whose grip on congested Austrian politics is steadily growing limper, announced: "The Cabinet Council expressed the unanimous conception that the granting to Austria of full equality was a self-evident supposition." In a firmer tone he removed Austrian rearmament from the realm of supposition by adding: "The necessary...
...like old times. Austrian troops, goose-stepping down the Ringstrasse and past the Imperial Palace saluted a towering old field marshal beside whom Chancellor Schuschnigg and President Miklas of the Austrian Republic seemed dwarfed to insignificance Der Feldmarschall was His Imperial and Royal Highness Eugen von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria and cousin of Franz Josef. Among the field pieces which clattered Eugen, many were seen to exceed the 5.5 inch calibre to which Austria is limited by the Treaty of St. Germain. The big surprise to most Austrians, who thought they possessed no treaty-banned battle planes, came when...
...scandalous by actually going to bed together, and an alliance for defense was about to be signed. Mussolini, who, since the accession of Hitler, has ceased to be Europe's "tough guy," was willing to be friends with practically any one who would help him guarantee an independent Austria. Even the London press had stopped seeing red, the Times remarking that a general European war was a far greater menace than a world revolution...