Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another front, some H. S. U. members took part in an anti-Nazi demonstration in front of the German consulate on State and Bond Streets in Boston Saturday noon. They flashed placards reading "Get out of Austria. Stop persecution, Quarantine the aggressor, Hitler" while they shouted for the downfall of the German leader...
Having assured Mussolini as to further German cooperation in Spain, Marx pointed out Hitler could feel justified in demanding a firmer hand in Austria without legitimate objections from Mussolini, who had formerly stood in the way of such a move. This tendency, Marx said, will eventually lead to the complete political coordination of Austria and Germany...
Vienna is probably not over 20% Nazi, but in the rural provinces Austrian Nazis run up to as high as 80%. In Graz, the chief city of Lower Austria, adjoining Hungary, the Nazi flag was hoisted above the town hall last week while Schuschnigg was speaking in Vienna. Next day the locally popular Mayor claimed he had resigned before a telegram from the Chancellor demanded he take "a vacation." Graz looked like one big Nazi meeting, with Hitler's picture in every shop whose owner did not want his window smashed, with peddlers selling Nazi lapel buttons, with crowds...
German newspapers gave less than usual encouragement last week to Austrian Nazis, but many Austrians feared this as an ominous lull before a bloody storm. Men pointed out that Berlin was one of the last great German cities to go Nazi, that Austrian Nazis might conquer Austria from Graz, as Hitler conquered Germany from Munich. If the French would fight a German invasion of Austria, it is by no means certain they would invade Austria to suppress an uprising by Austrian Nazis. General Franco has not had to fight the French Army, and it is unlikely that Hitler would give...
Optimism that Germany will not act precipitately and seize Austria because it lacks sufficient popular support at home was the keynote of Marx's address. He feels that the German people has never wanted to use aggression in dealing with the problem of the German minority in Austria...