Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have just gotten back to America from Austria in which I lived for the past eleven or twelve years. I was there when Austria was absorbed into the Dritte Reich, and when I got here, and read the American newspapers, I was shocked at the undertone of antagonism that seemed to pervade all of them. I want you to know that there was uncheckable enthusiasm along every street (hat Nazi troops marched through. Of course, it is also true that before the troops ever came across the border, thousands of German spirit-stirrer-uppers, so to speak, had permeated...
Puzzle which the U. S. State Department has been trying to solve for the last month has been: how to recognize Germany's annexation of Austria without appearing to approve it. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull solved his puzzle neatly in two simultaneous notes to the German Government. Note No. 1 recognized the annexation, stated that the U. S. "finds itself under the necessity as a practical measure" of closing its Vienna legation and appointing a consular staff in its place. Net result, since the U. S. ministry in Austria was vacant anyway, was that John...
...damage, however, was done. Not a newspaper in Catholic Austria* mentioned the Cardinal's about-face. And arriving back in Vienna, he had a swastika flag run up on old St. Stephen's Cathedral-just as he had had its bells rung when Hitler entered the city...
...Statistically, 90% Roman Catholic, with some 7,000,000 souls listed as belonging to the Church. Actually, anticlericalism has made its inroads in Austria. Last week Rev. James Mar tin Gillis, C.S.P., editor of the Catholic World, estimated the population as "50% or 40% good Catholic...
...Railway (Deutsche Reichsbahn), world's largest system,* all tracks, rolling stock and property of the 3,628-mile Austrian State Railways. Said an official announcement from the German Railroads Information Office, which last week closed all U. S. bureaus of the Austrian State Tourist Department: "The rejoicing of Austria and the happiness of the Austrian and German people over their long desired reunion will also be a boon to travelers: the dark clouds of political uncertainty have drifted away...