Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Provisions: Collaboration for peace between Britain, France, Italy, Germany; acceptance of the principle of revision of treaties: in the event of failure of full disarmament, gradual rearmament for Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria; a common line of action in world affairs by the four Powers...
Fighting all the way, the government of square-jawed little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss continued to oppose the relentless growth of Hitlerism in Austria last week. Fortnight ago came that decree so familiar to the last years of republican Germany: a ban on the wearing of political uniforms. Austrian Nazis promptly rushed to second-hand clothing shops and bought up all the old silk hats in sight, on the assumption that there could be no law against the wearing of a Cylinder, emblem of bourgeois respectability. For a few happy hours Viennese Nazis flaunted battered toppers above their sport suits until...
Next move was to reshuffle the cabinet. Little Chancellor Dollfuss traded Ministers around the better to fight Naziism, the better to court a much-needed loan from France. Most important cabinet shift was the appointment as Minister of Public Safety of Major Emil Fey. who has command over all Austria's defense forces. An ardent Royalist, a personal friend of Benito Mussolini, he fights the idea of anschluss (political union) with Germany as reducing Austria to the status of a minor German province...
...Nazi ranks and committed his entire organization to the tender mercies of Adolf Hitler. There are at least 1,000,000 Stahlhelm members in Germany. The move gave Handsome Adolf command of more than 1,600,000 trained men, including his own Storm Troops in Germany and Austria. Only the lack of arms and equipment prevented it from being the biggest, most powerful army in the world. Discipline. Next Nazi move last week was announcement that an official secret police, paralleling Russia's G. P. U., would be set up in Prussia, under command of the ever useful Hermann...
...said, "have a message for you from one of my much younger colleagues. Lucrezia Bori. The Metropolitan has been saved. . . . Lucrezia Bori thanks you." Well through the night the merriment went on. Royalty became democratic, went visiting around to the boxes where champagne corks kept up a steady popping. Austria's Francis Joseph (Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst) left Empress Elizabeth (Mrs. Vincent Astor) to pay his respects to Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan's big old board chairman, who was not in costume but stayed up to the very end. Upstairs the sedate refreshment room had been...