Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four acts asked of Germany: 1) return to the League of Nations; 2) renunciation of Nazi ambitions to incorporate Austria in the Fatherland. Germany joining Britain, France and Italy in guaranteeing the independence of Austria; 3) adherence by Germany to the proposed Eastern Locarno Pact under which all nations east of the Rhine* would mutually respect and guarantee each other's present frontiers; 4) adherence by Germany to a British-French-Italian-Belgian pact to resist "unprovoked air aggression" by whatsoever nation committed. The concession: In return for the foregoing German peace acts the Great Powers offered to release...
Meanwhile Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria-all bound by treaties limiting their armaments after their defeat in the World War-threatened to break faith, in imitation of Adolf Hitler. Austria, limited to 30,000 troops by the Treaty of St. Germain, plus 8,000 allowed after the assassination of Dollfuss, sought 100,000 as "absolutely essential." Turkey's pugnacious Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ("Father of the Turks") and Ghazi ("Victorious One"), is suspected of having already fortified the Dardanelles contrary to treaty, hinted that Turkey would now do so openly...
...Austria! If the English had expected to ask Hitler whether he would agree to keep hands off Austria, the Realmleader got the jump on them by demanding "examination of the present status of Austria under the present dominance of certain powers!"-Italy, France and Britain. He indicated that, contrary to the wishes of the Powers, Austrians must vote whether or not to join Germany...
...international situation, largely because Hitler has been talking more loudly and faster than the leaders of all the other countries combined. Although Der Feuhrer asserted his wish for European peace, he emphasized, in the devious language of diplomacy, his determined opposition to any interference in the "natural relations" between Austria and Germany--a statement which will stick in the crop of Mussolini. Even more serious are the arrogant demands that the Polish Corridor be demolished, that part of Czeckoslovakia be returned, and that the Reich have an air force equal to the French. It is not to be expected that...
Climax of the second monthly installment of The March of Time, out last week, is a series of swift international shots showing Europe drawing an iron ring around Adolf Hitler. While the German Realmleader broods in his Bavarian hideaway, marching men in Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Russia tramp a stern significance into the warning words of statesmen. Besides a visual integration of a taut European situation, this March of Time edition contains: 1) the dramatic crisis in the office of the New York Daily News on the night of the Hauptmann verdict; 2) an electric light bulb breaking, milk dropping...