Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leave the country in three days. His expulsion was countermanded but he would not stay. Marcel W. Fodor, famed Manchester Guardian and Chicago Daily News correspondent who supplied John Gunther and Dorothy Thompson with much of their Hitler-baiting background, thought it best for his health to flee Austria. Acme's Photographer Ernest Kleinberg, a Polish Jew, was taken into "protective custody." By week's end transfer of several foreign news service bureaus to suppression-free Prague, Budapest and other Central European capitals was under...
...Principality of Liechtenstein, 65 square miles of territorial pie wedged between Austria and Switzerland, is ruled by 84-year-old Prince Franz I of Liechtenstein. Last week Prince Franz must have been personally alarmed by the nearby appetite of Nazi Germany-for his wealthy Viennese wife, former Baroness Gutmann, is of Jewish descent, and much of his property is in Austria. But for his country he professed unconcern, announcing: "We have no fear regarding foreign intervention...
Professor Wolfgang Denk, 55, University & General Hospital chief surgeon, author of the textbook on surgery most widely used in Austria...
...throat specialist in Europe. This merry Orthodox Jew, who keeps a kosher home and prays each morning in phylacteries and sacred shawl, is the doctor & friend of England's George VI and Duke of Windsor, Spain's Alphonso, Rumania's Carol, Greece's George, Austria's late Emperor Charles. Two years ago Germany's Hitler, fearing cancer of the throat, asked Dr. Neumann to operate. The specialist refused, on the ground that if the operation failed, he would be blamed, not as a surgeon, but as a Jew. Last week he was arrested, whether...
Professor Fay stated that the union of Austria and Germany has "shifted the balance of power in Europe in favor of Germany and of might over right, but the Ansehluss will increase the problem of feeding the 78 million Germans in the enlarge Retch. Austria's foreign trade and tourist traffic will suffer severely because Hitler will clamp down the right German system of currency control and foreign trade regulation...