Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Against Austria's Nazi terror the Austrian Government struck back. Nazis to the number of 1,142 were arrested, 15 of them, German liaison officers directly responsible to Adolf Hitler, were expelled, 37 others were charged with high treason, the rest were cooled in jail for a couple of clays, then released...
...thing the Big Three Delegations from the Continent not only had in common but also shared with the Delegations of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Rumania and the Baltic states: All stood pledged to fight any move toward price raising by world monetary devaluation or inflation. Privately the German Delegates admitted that even Herr Hitler's popularity could not stand the storm which would burst should Germans, who suffered the world's worst inflation in 1923, feel they were due to suffer again...
...behind them, nervous as squirrels, perched the diplomats of the "Little Entente" (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia) and Poland. They understood from France, their great ally, that she had gouged out of the Pact all possibility that it may lead to revision of their frontiers or rearmament of their neighbors (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria) but in diplomacy no move is more frequent than the double-cross. With pulses thumping, the little diplomats listened while Premier Mussolini did his best (amid deafening Senatorial Vivas) to make Il Patto a Quattro sound important. "The war chapter is closed!" he shouted and loudspeakers made...
...Raising the discount rale in August 1929, and the Hatry crisis in London, precipitated the debacle which was spurred on in 1930 when the Hawley-Smoot tariff threw a monkey wrench into world commerce, in 1931 by the failure of the Creditanstalt in Austria, the German moratorium and England's abandoning gold. The Glass-Steagall bill produced improvement last summer which was promptly undone by President Hoover's Des Moines speech ("could not hold to gold . . . but two weeks longer"), controversy over War Debts and publication of R. F. C. loans which caused runs on banks...
...Peter's. On one platform were kinsmen of St. Andrè, a nun who said her life had been saved through his intercession, and representatives of the Daughters of the Holy Cross. On another were President Eamon de Valera of Irish Free State, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria, Princesses Germaine of Habsburg-Lorraine and Elisabeth of Bourbon-Parme. The Pope assumed the Papal throne. A Cardinal and two other prelates approached, knelt, begged thrice that Blessed Andrè Fournet be declared a saint. The Pope twice told all to pray for God's assistance, then declared the petition...