Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different was the meeting in Rome of the experts whom Italy's Mussolini, Austria's Dollfuss and Hungary's Gömbbs had named to draw up an economic agreement to implement their Three Power Pact (TIME, March 26). Last week the experts had something to show. Austria and Italy had agreed to buy most of Hungary's surplus wheat at a fixed minimum price of 92.6? a bu.; Hungary and Italy, to buy Austria's lumber and wood-pulp; Austria and Hungary to lower tariffs 10% on any goods that pass through Italy...
This walloping five weeks' work sent a wave of dismay through Germany and France. Austria had officially become Italy's little brother, safe for a while from German Nazi aggression. France had lost a major engagement to Mussolini, whose power fanned suddenly over all central Europe...
...year ago his presence in Bulgaria would have caused riots, for Jugoslavia is part of the French-inspired Little Entente. But things have changed in a twelvemonth. Spurred on by the menace of Hitlerism and the threat to the Balkan "succession states"* of a possible Habsburg restoration in Austria and Hungary, Boske Jeftitch has trotted up & down the Balkan corridor trying to organ ize a separate Jugoslav-Turkish-Bulgarian entente. The advantages of such an alliance to impoverished Bulgaria were obvious, but there was just one point on which Foreign Minister Jeftitch was insistent. Jugoslavia would join no pact unless...
...States whose territory comes in whole or in part from the old Austro-Hungarian Empire: Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Rumania, Italy, Austria...
...learned it) instigator. The American that gladdened his heart was Hiram Maxim, whose new machine gun was incomparably the best killing machine Zaharoff had ever seen. Zaharoff took Maxim to his bosom, with reservations. First he used his wily, polyglot salesmanship to block the gun's sale in Austria as an impractical toy; them, when he had offered Maxim a partnership and get the sale of the gun firmly in his own hands he swept over Europe and Asia selling such quantities that soon the new firm of the Maxim-Nordenfeldt Guns & Ammunition Co. was purchased for some...