Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaders of the Nazi Party in Austria will expel any member who responds to Prince Schönburg-Hartenstein's appeal for old soldiers to come to the aid of the Dollfuss Government. We will sacrifice not a man and not a cartridge because every possible and conceivable outcome of this conflict will result against Germany and the German people. But we will be ready at any time to make any sacrifice for a German solution of the Austrian problem...
...tone, he rhetorically inquired whether the Dollfuss Government "is prepared to find a way into a better German future in common with the National Socialist movement?" As though to give Dollfuss time to answer this preposterous question, he declared an eight-day "armistice'' on Nazi activities in Austria. "Party comrades will be allowed in this period merely to conduct propaganda among former members of the Socialist Party or to ward off direct attacks against their own persons...
Start Something! Not since 1914 has there been such a massing of troops as ringed Austria last week (see map). Italy had 75,000 men at the frontier ready to move in an hour. Due north in Bavaria was the famed Austrian Legion of approximately 30,000 exiled Nazis ready to march back into Austria with weapons from German arsenals whenever Adolf Hitler should nod nis head. Along the Czechoslovak frontier approximately 35,000 men, with the heaviest siege guns in Central Europe, were ready for the first nation that started something. Viennese knew that the Czech frontier is only...
What all were waiting for was the first overt move on the part of Germany. A Nazi Austria openly ruled from Berlin means more than the addition of 7,000,000 souls to the German Reich. It means that: 1) French-supported Czechoslovakia would be surrounded by Nazi land on three sides; 2) Germany would come down to the Brenner Pass and be only 100 miles from the Adriatic; 3) German minorities in Jugoslavia's Slovenia and Croatia would receive all the backing that Austrian Nazis have had; 4) Hungary and Rumania would be the next objects of Nazi...
...show, four of their dark-haired Scottish cousins as best team. Would he switch now to the great pointer, prancing proud and free as a stallion, of famed Fancier Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, niece of John Davison Rockefeller Sr.? Or to the magnificent poodle, champion of England, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and France, entered by Mrs. Sherman Hoyt of Manhattan? . . . Finally Judge Jarrett waved the two-year-old fox terrier bitch, Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston, into the winning stall...