Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom not one Viennese had voted, was inducted into office with considerable ceremony in the neo-Gothic Rathaus. Appointed directly by Chancellor Dollfuss. Burgomaster Richard Schmitz is a fellow War veteran, a fellow Catholic, a fellow mem ber of the Christian Socialist Party and a onetime Vice Chancellor of Austria. He appeared in the city hall wearing round his neck the golden chain of office of Vienna's Burgomasters, first time it had been worn since the Socialist administration discarded it after the War as a useless bourgeois symbol...
...rose to ask a few questions. Was it not true that despite the prohibitions of the Versailles Treaty full-page advertisements of Vickers tanks were published in Berlin papers? Would the chairman swear on his honor that no Vickers munitions were being secretly shipped to Germany and Austria, possibly to be used against British troops...
...Unfortunately," said he, "I cannot give definite assurance that none of our products is reaching Germany or Austria, but to our critics I can say this. Nothing is done without the complete sanction and approval of the British Government...
This week Austria ceases to be a republic. A dictatorship in fact for a year, the Government of Engelbert Dollfuss announced that henceforth the official title of the nation will be the Federal State of Austria...
...deciding factor which has immeasurably aggravated the tension is the decline of French dominance over Europe. The defection of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria has really broken up an alignment which was the main bulwark of her "security." With the more or less open and certainly rapid rearming of Germany, and the upstart manoevering of Mussolini--which produced the Balkan pact--France finds herself in an unobtrusive backseat. The League has gone, the Treaty with it, Germany is on the road back, (with an obvious goal,) and internally France is weakened by uncertainly--the stage could not better...