Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Liechtenstein has no official Nazi party, a Nazi sympathy movement has been simmering for years within its National Union party. Fortnight ago, emboldened by Nazi success in Austria, the Liechtenstein Nazi leaders openly announced that they were off to Berlin "to seek closer ties with Germany." Last week, in elections for the Diet following the Prince's abdication, the National Unionists made a vigorous showing, winning 48 government electors against 52 for the Bourgeois (Government) party. Twenty-four hours later the young Prince deemed it wise to reshuffle his Cabinet, give several posts to National Union Nazis...
Should Adolf Hitler desire to absorb Liechtenstein, he could meet little resistance, for the country has no army, no defenses and no military alliances. It sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, but its 81 soldiers did not reach the front in time to fight. In 1914-18 Liechtenstein was neutral. Liechtenstein is 15 miles (beeline) of the upper Rhine Valley. It is a flag stop on the Paris-Budapest railway. The scenery is unbeatable; on the east side of the valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village...
...Government's aim was announced as "good relations with all neighbors." However, a Palace spokesman added meaningly: "His Majesty's Government will be conscious of the realities of recent Danubian developments"-i.e., the Nazification of Austria...
...Chase (H. R. Sokal Film) soars over broad slopes and frowning crags in the Austrian Tyrol with shiny-nosed Leni Riefenstahl and world-famed Skimeister Hannes Schneider in the lead. Last week "non-Aryan" Skimeister Schneider was under Nazi lock & key in his native Austria. Fräulein Riefenstahl, last spring supposed to have been replaced in Hitler favor by Cinemactress Pola Negri (TIME, June 21), was meanwhile considered reestablished in her Fü:hrer's platonic affections...
...Mediterranean and Norwegian Fjords, carry "deserving workers," approved by their employers and the Labor Front. The fare to approved passengers will be as little as $30 per trip. Closing the launching ceremonies, Orator Hitler, looking meaningly at a big delegation of voters from Germany's newest province, Austria, cried: "What formerly was available only to a small privileged class we shall make available...