Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Lord & Lady Londonderry and all the Cabinet's biggest wigs & wives. The news tickers at No. 10 were chattering about how all Munich's motor vehicles, including beer trucks, had been commandeered and were roaring out along Adolf Hitler's concrete military Autobahnen toward Austria...
...Quai d'Orsay was hearing from Rome that Mussolini, now just entering upon negotiations through diplomatic channels with Chamberlain and already on an Axis with Hitler (TIME, Nov. 2, 1936), was "in these circumstances" not again going to mobilize Italian troops along the frontier of Austria as he did in 1934 after the Nazi assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss...
...after luncheon, the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, before they joined the ladies, took Herr Ribbentrop off into a separate room. Afterward, in high British quarters, they were said to have asked him to give "guarantees" that Germany would not violate the territory or independence of Austria- guaranteed already by no less than seven treaties, to all of which Britain & France are parties. Herr Ribbentrop was said on the same authority to have replied that this was "impossible,"* and to have added that it might be best for Britain and Germany not to attempt negotiations until Germany...
...movements, was waited upon by the British & French Ambassadors with identical, very sharply-worded protests. But they were not accompanied by anyone representing Russia, or the U. S., or Italy, or Japan. An agonizing interval of many hours elapsed before incredulous official London fully believed the German occupation of Austria was taking place, and at the British Foreign Office it was said that when Lord Halifax became convinced he clutched his forehead like a man distracted, exclaimed: "Horrible! Horrible! I never thought they would...
...Jesuit fathers correctly judged Kurt Schuschnigg in his boyhood to have the character of a great fighting Catholic, such as, for example, Ferdinand Foch. Schuschnigg, Jesuit-trained, brilliant and devout, fought in the World War right up to the Armistice, at which time he laid down his arms on Austria's Italian front. It was then, as Dr. Schuschnigg has bitterly complained in his memoirs, that some Scottish soldiers who had been aiding the Italians took not only his rifle and ammunition but also his watch, his ring and his pocketbook. After this he never again felt the same...