Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tense political situation in Central Europe will be one of the chief topics for discussion by the Model League of Nations when it convenes here on Friday, March 9, the executive committee of the organization announced yesterday. Much attention will be paid to the recent developments in Austria and a special committee has been delegated to investigate German monstrosities and the condition of the German refugees, fleeing from the Nazi government...
...into Paris, and the great names ranged themselves in the Salle de Glace, it was apparent that the full tide of democracy had done its work. The rising sea had swirled round the thrones, and floated the governments of the people into the seats of the mighty. In Russia, Austria, Germany, "the king" and "the empire" became frail words which foolish men scrawled up on walls or sidewalks late at night. Handsome gentlemen whose families had sketched the map of Europe for centuries moved off into quiet watering places to await, beneath the trees, a call which has not come...
...official' intervention because actual interference is already a fact. Mussolini has given arms to the Heimwehren; Hitler has given arms to the Nazis; and Czechoslovakia has helped the Socialists as far as possible. Austria has become a battlefield for all her neighbors. There is not yet any official intervention, but for many years there has been foreign official interference...
...Mussolini wants to be friendly towards Hitler, and at the same time he wants to prevent Hitler from annexing Austria. he has helped as best he can both Hitler and Starhemberg to gain control of Germany and Austria respectively. And now he awaits the results of the victories of his proteges. He is like a cat who has given berths to two tigers...
...race altogether. Though the orators at the meeting of the Third International and again at the All-Union Congress of the Party aired the customary phrases concerning the world revolution and the deepening contradictions of the capitalist order, the government either was not fully aware of the crisis in Austria or chose to disregard it in favor of the Japanese threat on the eastern border. There were two predominant, reasons for this negligence, I think; one is the obvious and much-publicized Russian nationalism which is afraid to jeopardize its economic arrangements with foreign countries by "meddling" in their internal...