Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oswald Mosley's black-shirted British Fascists were still a very small legion last week and the neo-Communist hunger march to London had fizzled pitifully. But with Austria sworn to a corporative state, with democracy on trial for its life in France and Spain, with its future clouded even in Britain, Stanley Baldwin stepped to a microphone in London and made the sort of speech that five years ago would not have been news but is today. "Our freedom did not drop down like manna from heaven," cried the Conservative leader. "It has been fought for from...
...often done before, Austrian and Hungarian Monarchists met in Vienna for a conference, but for the first time in years were allowed to talk to the Press. Baron von Wiesner. who presided, was said to have declared: "The law passed by the former Socialist Government, banishing the Habsburgs from Austria, will be rescinded by the Cabinet within a month. The former Empress and Emperor Otto will return as soon as practicable...
...portfolio in the Dollfuss Cabinet. Two weeks before he had said: "Reports that I am aiming at the crown are entirely untrue. I will not be a competitor of the Habsburgs. Otto is the only possible Emperor." If Otto should be restored it would bring certain definite advantages to Austria. The minor squabblings of Heimwehr, Christian Socialists, and Dollfuss Front members would end once they had a common figure to rally round. There would be a new, possibly a more glamorous figure to draw impressionable youth from Adolf Hitler. The pomp and ceremony of a Habsburg court, always the stiffest...
...Czechs are getting alarmed by Italian influence in Austria. Jugoslavia is rattled. The prospect of an Austro-Hungarian monarchy is not fantastic. Prince von Starhemberg and his following are Monarchists and make no secret of it. What does Mussolini think about that? ... It is all very dangerous. No one in England yet realizes, 1 imagine, the strength of the forces gathering around this cockpit of the Powers." So from Vienna last week wrote Sir Philip Gibbs, a British journalist with such an imposing reputation that he does not hesitate to advise the British Government. In Prague three days later...
...Buenos Aires was pronounced in Latin and Spanish. Neither bride nor groom understood a word of it. When Diaghilev heard the news he dismissed Nijinsky from the Ballet. A baby was on the way. The couple, who were just learning to converse in pidgin-French and Russian, went to Austria. There the War caught them and the authorities refused to let them leave. They were imprisoned, not in an army camp as other accounts have stated, but on the top floor of Romola's mother's house. She proved a stern jailer. Nijinsky was a hated Russian...