Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rome, March 16--Hailed as a significant step toward the maintenance of peace in Europe, two agreements were reached here today among Italy, Austria, and Hungary...
Ostensibly, these conferences are held only in order to alleviate the economic plight of Austria and Hungary by the formation of more favorable trade relations with Italy; no other power, it seems, is willing to take this step which is necessary if Austrian independence is to be maintained; hence Italy has nobly and altruistically come to the rescue quite devoid of any nordid ambitions. That this is pure buncombe it is hardly necessary to point out. What has happened is simply that Mussolini has seen that this is the opportunity of a lifetime to institute a defensive alliance with Austria...
...Rome, a parley among statesmen from Italy, Austria and Hungary prepared to get under way with a three-power treaty in sight, allying Italy against Nazi Germany in Central Europe...
...nothing one could see, nothing one could read, but suddenly tension throughout Austria relaxed last week. War clouds that have hung so black for so long rolled back a little. There was even a pale hope that Austria might be able to preserve her independence without turning Nazi. U. S. correspondents in Munich reported that detachments of the threatening "Austrian Legion" of Nazis were being withdrawn from the frontier...
Crisis or not, there was still plenty for diminutive Chancellor Dollfuss to do. Just a year after he had dissolved Parliament, he let it be known last week that the old Constitution of Austria was definitely and finally abolished, that a new Austro-Fascist Constitution would be proclaimed within a week. In the Official Gazette Government Adviser Robert Hecht explained things...