Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Josef A. Schumpeter will speak on "The Economics of Drifting to the Left." Professor Schumpeter is a former Minister of Finance of Austria, and is now a professor of economics at Harvard...
Affairs have been so long in a state of crisis in Austria that the high tension is assuming normality. Herr Dollfuss is still ruling by the skin of his excellently white teeth, the Nazis and Heimwehr are making a great deal of noise and suffering a wild persecution, and the Socialists are biding their time, suspicious of both parties, with a general strike trump up their ragged sleeves in case of emergency. The Chancellor has ordered gallows to be erected for public punishment; mass demonstrations have been outlawed; the opposition press is now effectively muzzled. One thing which this situation...
...Jugoslavia, Premier Tsaldaris of Greece and Premier Combos of Hungary. All came for preliminary talks looking toward realization of Kemal's plan for a Balkan Federation economically uniting Turkey, Greece, Rumania, Jugoslavia and Bulgaria. But against this proposal is the French counterplan for a Danubian Federation of Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Jugoslavia and Bulgaria. Today Turkey, not yet sure of the new Balkan friends she has been making, still cleaves to Russia, until recently her only friend...
Seventy-five members of the high nobility of Imperial Austria went to Rome last week to act out in good earnest the situation which Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood and his U. S. producers made much hay with as Reunion in Vienna. In Rome's Imperial Hotel, they bowed their heads and bent their knees in a chamber where, on a borrowed golden throne raised on a dais, sat Zita, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, mother of Otto, the 20-year-old pretender to the throne of Austria, Hungary or both...
...adventurer" but a King-Emperor would be another thing. Zita told him last week that Britain and France were looking at Otto as at least a possible last resort to stop the spread of Nazism southward from Germany. What, King Victor Emanuel asked, of that potent little Nazi-stopper, Austria's Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss who emerged nearly intact last fortnight from a point-blank meeting with an assassin? Zita produced the strange new argument of Austrian Royalists: If Dollfuss were killed, there is no second Dollfuss to take his place. If her son, King-Emperor Otto, were killed...