Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event of the failure of full disarmament, a pledge to grant gradual arms equality for Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria...
...Disarmament Conference, was there, as was the League's Secretary-General Sir Eric Drummond. But the only disarmament delegate to attend was Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Eduard Benes. Because Adolf Hitler refused them passports, no German veterans were present. CIAMAC's President Maximilian Brandiesz of Austria read a message from Berlin...
...FIDAC's members come entirely from Allied countries, CIAMAC's preponderantly from Germany and Austria...
...involves the liquidation of the Versailles restrictions on the Central Powers -- restrictions which left France tremendously powerful -- would tend to show not a sudden burst of altruism, but the effect of outside pressure. In short, Deladier and has advisers are afraid of the tacit coalition between England, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Hungary. That Italy is willing to cooperate with Great Britain seems quite logical, in consideration of the facts that the British fleet controls the Mediterranean, that MacDonald is holding out a tempting offer of colonies which Italy never received for her part in the World War, and that...
...significance and the menace of this new alignment becomes clearer when applied to the German situation. The Nazis have publicly announced that their goal is a Pan-Germany, a linking up with Austria and later, perhaps, Hungary. If France intervenes to smash this arrangement, it is unlikely that England and her ally, Italy, would stand by while the French destroy the Central Powers. They could not watch peacefully the elimination of the eastern check to French supremacy. It would mean, baldly, a general, disastrous war. That is not an alarmist view; it is, unfortunately, commonsense...