Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They agreed that neither would raise the Zollverein issue in commission, leaving it to be discussed by the Council of the League. Dr. Curtius then got it into his German head that he could keep this promise by talking about the merits of customs unions in general, not mentioning Austria or Germany. When he proceeded to do so, Chairman Briand, his nerves raw, may have thought Dr. Curtius was either a squarehead or no man of his word. Briand cut in: ". . . We must not attempt what it is forbidden to attempt!* . . ." This enraged Dr. Curtius, who seemingly thought...
...other words the Briand way to combat Zollverein is to offer Germany and Austria something better, perhaps a general European cartel based largely on wheat. To maintain a balanced exchange of wheat and manufactures throughout Europe, the plan provides for a system of reciprocal tariff rebates between those countries which are buyers of wheat and exporters of manufactured goods and those which are exporters of wheat and importers of manufactured goods...
...start time lagging, for example, about the customs union between Austria and Germany. They are bound to unite, not merely in a customs union but in a national union. ... Do not write about [modern republics] like a very old fashioned governess in a very old fashioned cathedral town. . . . You will lose your power over the public mind and a great deal of that is already passing to the radio. . . . People for whom we write have never seen us or heard our voices, and I often think a journalist in a city should be made to go around in a large...
Engaged. Princess Ileana of Rumania, 22, youngest daughter of Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, onetime fiancée of Count Alexander von Hochberg und zu Fünstenstein (TIME, Feb. 10, 1930), and Archduke Anton von Habsburg of Austria, 30, aviator, employe in a Vienna cinema studio; in Umkirch Castle, Freiburg, Baden, Germany. After the betrothal ceremonies the couple took off for a short Verlobungsfahrt (engagement trip) in an airplane...
Next year Austria plans to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Haydn's birth but over his skull & bones a dispute has arisen. All Haydn's bones up to his head are in Eisenstadt where for years Haydn lived and worked. Eisenstadt wants to stage the major celebration but she wants also the skull, possessed now by the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music. The Vienna Friends, loth to lend it, received it from the heirs of the morbid jailer. When the authorities discovered and traced the theft ten years after it was made, the culprits procured...