Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commissar Litvinoff knew without asking that anti-Communist Poland would fight before allowing Soviet troops to pass over its territory to Czechoslovakia. Since German absorption of Austria, however, Dictator King Carol of Rumania has become friendlier to the Soviet Union, less friendly to Germany. Last week, in Geneva, while the League of Nations Council held a speedy six-minute meeting in which eight non-controversial reports were adopted prior to the convening this week of the League Assembly, Rumanian and Soviet League delegations allowed the fact to leak out that Commissar Litvinoff and Rumanian Foreign Minister Petrescu-Comnen were discussing...
...Europe the masses had feared that with this speech the Führer might unleash war. However, a symphony rarely ends by blowing all the biggest horns, nor has Adolf Hitler ever up to now rattled to give notice before one of his lightning strikes, such as seizing Austria. His words this week simply advanced the German psychological offensive to a new stage...
Frau Alwine Dollfuss, widow of Austria's assassinated Chancellor, was discovered living incognito with her children, Eva, 11, and Rudi, 7, in a Welsh hamlet, waiting for American friends & relatives to arrange a refuge...
When the German army crossed the Austrian border last March, incorporated Austria into the Reich, OE3AH sat at his radio apparatus in Schloss Sonnberg filling his log with records of the short-wave contacts he was making for a high score in an international DX contest. A week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania's King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a "secret radio station" in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials...
...Government's vital statistics bureau announced that marriages in the Ostmark (onetime Austria) numbered 4,126 in July, almost quadrupling Austria's 1,092 in July 1937. Delighted, a bureau spokesman announced: "It is hoped that next year's birthrate in the Ostmark will be at least double that of 1938." Since August 1, however, more than 10,000 applications for divorce have been filed in Vienna. Reason: under papal law in Austria, a marriage in which one spouse was Roman Catholic was indissoluble by divorce; now that the Ostmark is under German law, divorce...