Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assassination of Austria's Chancellor and the mobilization of Italy's army exactly 20 years after Imperial Austria declared what grew into the World War sent U. S. stock values crashing down to their 1934 lows last week. Not to be caught napping in case Europe again went up in flames, editors from the Atlantic to the Pacific put their biggest blackest headlines over news from Vienna, Rome and Berlin and wrote solemn pieces on the coincidence of dates, the possibilities of conflict. In London the "American War Scare" was loftily pooh-poohed, but repercussions of the Dollfuss murder stirred...
Germany. Official Germany was on edge with hope that the butchers of Engelbert Dollfuss would succeed in upsetting the Austrian Government. When they were clapped into jail Adolf Hitler had to work fast. Unfortunately the German Chancellor's duly appointed Inspector General for Austria, blustering Theodor Habicht, had said while broadcasting from Munich at the height of the excitement that Dollfuss' slayers were "returning" to Germany. That slip caused Chancellor Hitler to fire Herr Habicht from...
...also necessary to fire the German Minister to Austria, well meaning Dr. Kurt Rieth, who had doubtless thought he was serving his Government when he undertook to dicker for the butchers and promised them safe entry into Germany. This blunder was irretrievable but it gave intuitive Chancellor Hitler one of his bright ideas. He has long been looking for a way to ease German Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, protégé and "best comrade" of President von Hindenburg, out of his Cabinet (TIME, July 9). Impulsively Chancellor Hitler dashed off an effusive letter, "requesting you, Dear Herr von Papen...
...brilliant uniform with little money in his purse. Though some of his biographers say he was a born soldier, Author Tomas disagrees, thinks Cervantes loathed the life but preferred it to starvation. He acquitted himself creditably in the great sea-battle of Lepanto, in which Don John of Austria destroyed the Turkish fleet, and won a slight raise in pay and a permanently maimed left hand. On his way back to Spain his ship was captured by Algerian corsairs. In Algiers, Cervantes spent five years in prison, made four unsuccessful attempts to escape, was finally ransomed...
...shoe that has proved its worth, he got a send-off such as few commanders have rated. After the fall of Belgrade, when the army was being demobilized, Eugene rode quietly away in his dusty brown coat. Behind him his veterans raised a spontaneous ditty which soon all Austria was singing: "Prinz Eugen der edle Ritter . . ." ("Prince Eugene the noble Knight"). His career had been a success; he had shown the world. But he got no rest on his hard-won laurels. He was over 70 when for the last time he led an army against the French. Outnumbered four...