Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundreds of intelligent observers in Germany honestly believed that the Junker Government of General von Schleicher and Col. von Papen had definitely ended the growth of Hitlerism in Germany. Anxious not to repeat the same mistake, observers have this year watched the fight of little Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria against Naziism with marked scepticism. They know that Austria's 6,500,000 are still nearly 50% pro-Nazi. They know that as a matter of prestige Adolf Hitler, who once roamed the streets of Vienna hungry, is willing to spend time and money out of all proportion to Austria...
...Italy will set aside for Austria a free zone in the port of Trieste...
...Austria will have the opportunity of buying or building a merchant fleet, which with Trieste as its home port will put the red & white ensign on the seas again...
...would buy her surplus wheat from Hungary. Repeated rumors came from Paris and London that France and Britain were also about to reward the little Chancellor by lifting quota restrictions against Austrian goods. The beginnings of world recovery allowed the Vienna Chamber of Commerce to announce last week that Austria's foreign trade, though still far from healthy, was definitely better...
Just over the Bavarian border a tangible threat to Austria's safety exists in the form of 6,000 to 8,000 Austrian Nazi "exiles," living in German camps, drilling with German rifles. Millimetternich's next move was to lessen this danger by mobilizing 1,000 members of the Hilfspolizei (Assistant Police) and sending them to reinforce the present border guards. The Hilfspolizei are specially picked members of the officially unarmed anti-Nazi Heimwehr who have been armed and enrolled in the national government. Because of South Austrian murmurings that the Tyrol was playing too large a part...