Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention which was once devoted solely to the Polish Corridor has, this year, shifted spasmodically but over more frequently to the Anschluss, a term which includes almost any sort of union between Germany and Austria. Europe has been losing many hours of sleep over this question, not simply as a subject for disinterested betting as to whether or not the merger would be effected, but because its completion would undoubtedly mean war. For despite nonchalant reports to the contrary, neither France nor Italy have the slightest intention of allowing the Anschluss...
...dividing line between economic and political power is so minute as to be indistinguishable, trade contracts are instruments of political bargaining, and likely to go to that major nation whose "prestige" and propinquity are greatest. So, through the actual military power which would accrue to Hitler from alliance with Austria's army and industrial resources is small, yet his opportunity to muscle in on the Balkan market is too real for France and Italy to ignore...
...position which Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria occupies in this melange is critical and interesting. As the world knows, he is the nominal bulwark against the Anschluss and its proponents, the Nazis. Keyed up by a buoyant egoism which has led him to exploit his four feet eleven inches as a little Napoleon, and supported by considerable religious fervor, he has snatched at every straw to consolidate his position. To take the wind from Nazi sails, he has become a real dictator with actually Fascist principles, though professedly an amorphous Christian Socialism. How long will he last? That...
...feel," said she, "about Austria today the way the world felt about Belgium...
Nobody knows how many Nazis and pro-Nazis there are in Austria. Beyond the 60,000 uniformed Heimwehr men, estimates of the Heimwehr's political strength are equally uncertain. But 1,250,000 Socialists signed their names and addresses to a recent petition to Chancellor Dollfuss (TIME, Sept. 18) demanding the reconvening of Parliament and there are less than 7,000,000 souls in Austria...