Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis Gross, a retired Catholic priest of Perth Amboy, N. J., mopped his thick jowls in the torrid committee room as he told of an anti-Semitic pamphlet he had written called "Justice to Hungary, Germany and Austria." When his printer dunned him. Father Gross wrote him that none other than the Reich's Ambassador at Washington, Dr. Hans Luther, was his "sponsor, financial backer and promoter.'' The German Embassy, said Father Gross, had purchased 100 copies of his pamphlets at 70? each. The German Embassy retorted: ''It goes without saying that the German Ambassador...
This spring the Bureau of Entomology organized a Division of Foreign Parasite Introduction which will search Japan, France and Austria for parasitic enemies of insects that have invaded the U. S. from those countries. Of parasites which have already proved their worth hundreds of thousands were loosed from government insectaries. One star performer is Trichogramma minutum, a small species of wasp which lays its own eggs inside the eggs of the codling moth, oriental fruit moth, European corn borer, pecan nut case bearer, Angoumois grain moth, many another...
...under French backing, attempt to solidify her position with Dr. Benes' Little Entente, slump slightly with Depression and finally face the menace of Naziism on her borders. The two most serious problems that the old gentleman faces at the beginning of his fourth term are: 1) a Nazi Austria to the south and a Nazi Germany to the north; 2) a possible Habsburg restoration with a revival of Hungary's demands for part of her lost provinces of Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia...
...busy week was what to do about Dr. Ludwik Rajchman. So glaring are the things that the League of Nations ills to do that the world is apt to forget the practical international charity which the League attempts. Year ago it was the League-inspired loan to Austria that did much to ward off Hitlerism and keep Engelbert Dollfuss in the saddle. Since 1930 the League has been doing what it could for impoverished China. Eight months ago it commissioned its Dr. Ludwik Rajchman, Polish expert on China, to act as financial adviser to the Nationalist Government and handle reconstruction...
...little nose-thumbing at Japan Nanking could afford. Though Japan had made much of her opposition to the sale of munitions to China, and the use of foreign military instructors for Chinese troops, a commission of 22 bright young Chinese officers left Shanghai last week to visit Italy, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain and finally the U.S. to inspect forts and munitions factories and study the organization of foreign armies...