Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Prince & Chancellor. Honest Scot MacDonald was made from the first to feel that his prior conversations with Premier Tardieu had been in the worst possible diplomatic taste. Down the tense conference table the Prime Min- ister's rich voice rolled, "Something must be done immediately or Austria and Hungary will go back to ruins...
...MacDonald's extreme discomfiture France's Flandin leaned his large elbows on the Cabinet table, rested his massive jowls upon his fists and left the defense of France's plan for saving Danubia largely to the British. The plan: 1) loans to Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Hungary and Austria totaling $40.000,000 or about 65¢ to each Danubian man, woman and child; 2) exclusion of Bulgaria (Germany's ally 1914-18) from this rescue party, although Bulgaria is on the Danube and in dire straits; 3) lowering inter-Danubian tariffs by 10% to 20% all round, to stimulate trade recovery...
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Died. Count Ottokar Czernin, 60, Wartime Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary; of heart disease; in Vienna. Minister in Bucharest at the start of the War, he later dictated the peace terms to defeated Rumania, aided in forcing the treaty of Brest-Litvosk on Bolshevik Russia. Foreseeing ultimate defeat and consequent disintegration of the Dual Monarchy, he strove for peace, was made a scapegoat for his pains...
Died. Archduchess Maria Dorothea Amelia of Austria, 65, relict of the late pretender to the French throne, Louis Philippe Robert, Duke of Orleans; after long illness; in Budapest...