Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some Italian editors echo Il Duce louder than others, but always loudest is young Editor Mario Carli of L'Impero ("Orders is Orders"). It was he who last year called Austria ''a miserable spitoon" when relations were strained with that country (TIME, April 22). His headline on the Naval Conference last week...
...almost eight years and under three presidents (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover), Albert Henry Washburn served with outstanding, remarkable success as U. S. Minister to Austria. Death came to him last week in Vienna and all Austria mourned a potent friend, the champion who had fought to put through the League of Nations' International Loan ($126,000,000) which saved Austria from fiscal collapse...
...great Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. From this he passed through two U. S. appointeeships to a well-paid legal practice in New York. He was ready (like John North Willys whom President Hoover has just sent to Poland) to retire from money-making when President Harding sent him to Austria...
Minister Washburn considered it his duty and made it his hobby to obtain a profound grasp of all the secret machinations and counter-machinations of the Socialist and Reactionary irregular armies in Austria: the Schutzbund and the Heimwher. During Vienna's "Red Revolution" in 1927, when the capital was cut off by railway and telegraph strikes from the world, and when Italy was itching to use the excuse of "revolution" to intervene, Mr. Washburn saw that such a coup could best be prevented by smuggling out of the facts, the news. He and another U. S. Minister...
...Washburn's well-pondered opinion that: "The irregular armies of Austria can mobilize more rapidly, with a superior armament and a greater striking power than is possessed by the lawful forces of the Republic...