Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Startled at the presence of an Austrian Chancellor in Fascist Italy, the Chicago Tribune ("The World's Greatest Newspaper") headlined in the argot of gangland: ITALY GRABS UP AUSTRIA AS ALLY IN BALKAN RING...
...read a memorial plaque, solemnly unveiled last week at ominous Serajevo. The letters of pure gold are deeply sunk in green marble. Pensively upon the stone broods the image of a frail young man. He proclaimed liberty by foully assassinating the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. But the World War which followed did liberate Serajevo from Austrian rule. Therefore to his people a foul assassin is a Hero (TIME...
...Foreign Office to dismiss the Chief Censor. Frightened, stupid underlings at the Bureau of Censorship freely passed despatches telling how Dictator-King Alexander had almost succeeded in keeping the world ignorant that his people have glorified a deed doubly foul?for Assassin Princip slew not only the Heir of Austria but also His Royal Highness' morganatic wife, Sophie Countess Chotek, mother of two sons who still live in Austria, a daughter who lives in Czechoslovakia...
...feet in circumference, inscribed only with the two words in giant capitals BENITO MUSSOLINI. To make up for the King's oblivion there walked beside Il Duce in the funeral procession a figure never before seen at a Fascist function, sleek white-bearded Johann Schober, Chancellor of Austria...
...last week, strictly a treaty of friendship and arbitration. He also visited Pope Pius and received the Grand Cordon of the Order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus from King Vittorio Emanuele. His presence in Rome was to thank the Italian Government for lifting the ban on Italian loans to Austria, for Italy's help at The Hague Conference in proving Aus- tria's inability to pay War reparations. It is no secret that both of these favors came in return for Austria's pledge that anti-Italian propaganda in German-speaking South Tyrol would cease...