Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unsatisfactory reply which Germany has just made to the Austrian note of a week ago demanding that the Reich cease its sub-rosa aid to the Fascist party in Austria has precipitated a serious situation in that country. Dollfuss finds himself in a highly precarious position, with the political unity of his country rapidly disintegrating before his eyes. With the Heimwehr reported to be riddled with Nazi sympathizers, the Socialist party alienated, and the peasants supporting him only on account of the Church, Dollfuss apparently feels that his domestic position has become so unstable that if he is to maintain...
Dollfuss' appeal has brought about a crisis the seriousness of which is not generally realized. If the Nazis are successful and a pro-German Fascist regime is set up in Austria it will signify more than merely a further spread of the Fascist doctrine; it will mean that the powers of Europe have lost the first real test of strength, with Hitler's Germany, and it will mean the beginning of the end for the status quo set up at Versailles. If Germany is allowed to absorb or control Austria the post-war system of Europe which was based...
That some means of avoiding this must be invented there is no doubt. But how this is to be done without virtually taking away the political independence of Austria and making her a mere ward of the League presents an unusually thorny problem. Everything is on the side of the Nazis; it will not be surprising if they are able to brave all the rest of Europe, and set up a Fascist government in Vienna which in everything but name will be merely a sub-station of the main Brown House in Berlin. NEMO...
There was a big black circle round Jan. 30 on every police, every government calendar in Austria last week. Jan. 30 is the first anniversary of Adolf Hitler's accession to power in Germany. All Austria felt that one more Nazi attempt to seize the Vienna Government by force was due, that Jan. 30 was its logical date...
...Ernest Hocking, 60, profound Alfred North Whitehead, 72, one of the three "geniuses" whom Gertrude Stein has known (others: herself, Painter Pablo Picasso). Ill health made William Zebina Ripley, 66, railroad expert, retire last March but economics in 1932 acquired brilliant Josef Alois Schumpeter, onetime (1919) Finance Minister of Austria. Since 1882 Frank William Taussig, 74, tariff authority, has been one of Harvard's proudest possessions...