Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole Fascist Press lashed out with revelations of a secret note, jointly dispatched by the British and French Governments to Vienna on Feb. 11 and requiring the Austrian Government to return to Italy a shipment of 50,000 rifles and 200 machine guns now being "repaired" at Hirtenberg in Austria and allegedly destined for Hungary by the Italian shippers...
Marie Antoinette had several popular nicknames, all indicative of her unpopularity. The first, ''The Austrian," was founded strictly on fact. Fifteenth and next-to-last child of Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria. Marie Antoinette was condemned by her scheming mother, by the diplomatic system of Europe, to be a political pawn. Married off young to the French Dauphin, lethargic Louis XVI ("whose greatest achievement was to go to bed at eleven o'clock every night") she soon found her married life was to have no pretense of love, not even (until Louis finally consented to an operation...
...Chancellor was born to the wife of an Austrian customs inspector on the German frontier of Austria in 1889. Shy, nervous and inclined to keep to himself, Adolf was encouraged by his mother to do watercolors. In his 'teens he became an orphan, went to Vienna, tried to be a painter, became a builder's helper ("house painter" to his critics) and emigrated to Munich with $4 in his pocket rather than perform his Austrian compulsory military service...
...Lawyers of the American Medical Association have been unable to find any records of U. S. appellate courts passing on the validity of blood tests in paternity cases. But high courts have accepted the tests in Germany, Austria, France, England, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy...
...bishops will journey to Vatican City, heading pilgrimages of 50 to 1,000 persons. The King and Queen of Italy and the King and Queen of the Belgians will be visitors, as also will such discarded monarchs as Spain's Alfonso and Victoria, Portugal's Amelie, Austria-Hungary's Zita, and Afghanistan's Amanullah, who will not bring his beauteous Moslem wife, Souraiya. President Miklas of Austria is expected. Other Catholic nations may send delegations. The Vatican has let it be known that it would appreciate a visit from President Lebrun of France...