Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strenuous efforts were made by foes of the Government last week to suggest with screaming headlines that the Cabinet was "splitting." On the theory that the oppression of Jews in German-Austria must have deeply moved Britain's Jewish War Secretary, Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, dispatches left London and made world-wide news to the effect that Mr. Hore-Belisha had "threatened to resign" from the Cabinet, taking with him Malcolm MacDonald (Dominions), W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore (Colonies), W. S. Morrison (Agriculture) and Walter E. Elliott (Scotland...
...German Austria's celebration-weary populace worked hard last week to keep up the enthusiasm required by Naziism, their new Nazi officials embarked on what the Vienna Nazi press jokingly called "the great spring cleaning"-the wholesale purge of Jews, monarchists, Schuschnigg supporters, Socialist and Communist workers...
Sensational father-daughter joint suicides were reported throughout German Austria. Tyrolean Tycoon Friedrich Reitlinger, ardent Catholic and financial backer of the Heimwehr, had his daughter shoot him, then herself. At Innsbruck a 69-year-old university professor, Gustave Bayer, Catholic member of the Heimwehr, and his daughter swallowed overdoses of morphine, turned on the gas. Vienna's collection of world-famed Jewish medical men was thinned as specialists and hospital heads chose death by their own hands. Other prominent suicides were bespectacled Baron Odo Neustaedter-Stuermer, a Heimwehr leader under Dollfuss; Financier Gottfried Kunwald and Dr. Otto Russo, director...
Barbarians. This week 150,000 was the estimated number of German Army troops in Austria and their officers, most of whom are not Nazis, in many cases asked tourists they happened to encounter: "You don't think we are barbarians...
...world's most famed places of musical pilgrimage, Austria's Salzburg, last week appeared on the verge of losing its eminence. It had already lost its three leading artistic personalities, Italian Conductor Arturo Toscanini, who resigned (TIME, Feb. 28), Jewish Conductor Bruno Walter, who was last week safe in The Netherlands although his daughter was arrested in Vienna, and Jewish Stage Director Max Reinhardt whose two Salzburg presentations were canceled. The moment was therefore favorable for revived talk of a U. S. Salzburg...