Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, the example of Germany fortnight ago in bringing within the Reich the whole of Austria without bloodshed (TIME, March 21) appeared to be irresistibly attractive to the Polish Government. Polish Marshal Smigly-Rydz showed up in Vilna and marshaled over 50,000 Polish troops along the frontier of Lithuania, which has an army of some 22,000. When the sabre had been thoroughly rattled, Polish President Ignacy Moscicki and Foreign Minister Josef Beck, just back in Warsaw after conferring in Rome with II Duce, dispatched to President Antanas Smetona of Lithuania demands asking nothing more than that...
...Germans, and last week Der Führer and II Duce worked like stevedores to keep their peoples sold on the Rome-Berlin Axis. The press of the world had done everything possible to suggest that Italy and Germany can no longer be friends, now that Germany has engulfed Austria and thus brought German soldiers down to the Brenner Pass frontier of Italy, immediately below which live 613,000 Italian subjects, many of whom were Austrian Tyroleans before the War and are as fiercely German as A. Hitler himself...
...Prague the utmost consternation reigned in Cabinet circles. Dr. Benes, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," was quite able to add up the Stalin blood purge, the Chamberlain tribulations, the Blum uncertainties and the collapse of Austria. Smart, quick, the President rushed into effect measures he hoped would insure peace between Czechoslovakia and Germany. The 3,200,000 Czechoslovaks who are radically German and whose principal leader is blatant Nazi Konrad Henlein-involved only a few months ago in a homosexual scandal -are to be given by a bill announced by the Cabinet last week the right to fill...
Veteran Berlin correspondents declared they had never before seen Adolf Hitler and the 741 members of the German Reichstag in quite such an electric state of emotion as last week. For the first time since 1866 Austrian officials had their place with the Germans. Austria, now a German province, sent her Governor (not Chancellor) Arthur Seyss-Inquart to Berlin by air, dressed in the uniform of one of Dictator Hitler's Elite Guard. Austrian-born Herr Hitler was greeted by Reichstag President Göring with the words: "You conquered Austria not with bloody use of force but with...
...coming plebiscite April 10, following which a new Reichstag will be seated; 4) declaration that "Germany wants only peace! . . . She is ready, however, to give her last man for honor and existence!";* 5) high-powered dwelling by the Dictator upon what he insists has been the plight of Austria and Vienna: "The State of Austria represented from the outset a State completely unable to live. The economic distress was correspondingly dreadful and the people's mortality figure rose in the most fearful manner. In Vienna alone last year out of 100,000 births there were 20,000 fatalities...