Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-crime drive last week took on an international angle when police officials from Europe and the U. S. created an International World Police. Gathered at Chicago's Stevens Hotel, they agreed to set up clearing houses for criminal information at Washington and at Vienna, Austria, and to cooperate in preventing international rackets. Also convened in Chicago was the World Association of Detectives whose members agreed upon one thing: "Hang all convicted kidnappers...
Reticent about the quid pro quo, which will presumably involve the entrance of Austria and Hungary into an Eastern European bloc with Italy and the Little Entente, General Gömbös exclaimed: "My conversations with Premier Mussolini have shown the complete agreement of our views on all questions, political and economic. I am very pleased...
...statesmen exchanged the draft text of an Austro-Hungarian-Italian trade treaty which may prove of utmost impor tance. It is no secret that Il Duce opposes Adolf Hitler's efforts to draw Austria into union with Germany-which would mean that Italy would face on her northern frontier not puny Austria but the potent German Reich. According to the draft text exchanged in Rome last week Italy is ready to agree to increase her purchases from Austria and Hungary and, over a period of years, to buy from them more than they sell...
...Picked as U. S. Minister to Austria, today's hot spot of Central Europe, was George Hansell Earle Jr., polo-playing Philadelphia socialite. A onetime Republican, he supported Franklin Roosevelt last year. His appointment, first diplomatic patronage to go to Pennsylvania, had the endorsement of Joe Guffey, the State's Democratic boss. After his Harvard graduation (1913) Mr. Earle roamed Germany and Austria for two years, served in the Navy during the War, is now vice president of Pennsylvania Sugar Co., a director of the Philadelphia Record. Dark, handsome, husky, he lives with his wife and four children...
Nazi newsorgans promptly claimed that this "spiritual nation" will not stop at the frontiers of the Reich. "After the Constitution of the Evangelical Church of the German Nation has been acknowledged," crowed the Nazi Kreiiz Zeitung, "the Evangelical Church of Austria will belong to it and the Evangelical churches of Transylvania, Jugoslavia, the Baltic regions and lands across the sea will be able to conclude working agreements with this really German Evangelical Church...