Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little Dollfuss' main job today is to stop the dropping of Nazi leaflets from German airplanes upon Austria, to silence Hitlerite radio appeals to Austrians, and generally to prevent Chancellor Adolf Hitler & henchmen from fomenting a Nazi revolt in the Austrian Republic...
...dash by air to the London Conference plausible Chancellor Dollfuss wangled in its lobbies a $43,000,000 League of Nations loan to Austria, largely underwritten by France and Britain in the belief that the Dollfuss Government is the sheet anchor of peace in Eastern Europe. Last week in Berlin peppery French Ambassador André Francois-Poncet left a stiff note at the Foreign Office and bland British Chargé d' Affaires Basil Newton protested verbally that German Nazi efforts to overthrow the Dollfuss Government are contrary to Germany's obligations under the Treaty of Versailles and more...
...Duce had guessed the right way to handle Chancellor Hitler. The French and British were haughtily told by Berlin's Foreign Office that "this intervention in Austro-German difficulties is inadmissible," but the Italian Government received a discreet, direct pledge that German propaganda to Nazify Austria will be toned down...
...stop 'Independent Poland ' " Josef Pilsudski "got off" by desperate battling as commander of his Polish Legions who fought Imperial Russia during the World War, sometimes under their own ensign, sometimes as units-but always distinct units-in the hospitable armies of Imperial Austria. Today such old campaigners as Josef Stalin and Josef Pilsudski can understand each other even hough their dictatorships are different. Both, of course, disclaim being dictators. Comrade Stalin says he is only the Secretary of the Communist Party. Marshal Pilsudski is only War Minister-but both tell their countrymen what to do and are obeyed...
...scrutinize from Vienna's standpoint the trade agreement which General Gömbös brought home from Rome, Austria's alert, diminutive Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss sent his Minister of Commerce, Herr Friedrich Stockinger, hurrying to Budapest...