Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncle of Archduke Otto of Habsburg, who is pretender to the throne of Austria...
Nazi activity in Austria is a crime. In Vienna there was, however, a quiet understanding which served as a kind of life insurance for Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg: anti-Nazi laws would not be too strictly enforced so long as Nazis would not foment any more such plots as that which succeeded four years ago in the brutal murder of Chancellor Dollfuss. Last week Dr. Josef Tavs, the No. 2 Austrian Nazi, could not resist boasting to the correspondent of a Czechoslovak newspaper that he and Captain Josef Leopold, the No. 1 Austrian Nazi, were openly doing Nazi business from...
...wise fulfilled its initial aims. We consider it our right and duty to try to bring new life to the great old League. . . . We have never doubted that the Rome Protocols are our best orientation. . . . An anti-Communist pact long has been a practical reality for Austria and Hungary...
...crude blunder in the peace treaties to forbid the union of German Austria with the German Republic. ... It will be safer policy to expect and allow for the expansion of German interests along lines which it is patently destined to follow. ... If there is to be peace, there can be no exemption from contribution and concession-neither for Germans, nor for Czechs, nor for the British Empire either. . . . The gravitational pull of a nation of 70,000,000 [Germany] cannot be denied...
This pro-German propaganda, a great deal better than any Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels and his Ministry of Propaganda know how to turn out in Berlin, alarmed Central Europe where people believed the Times was speaking for the British Government-approving Adolf Hitler's ambition to absorb Austria and at least part of Czechoslovakia. To reassure his Czechoslovaks, their popular President Eduard Benes had to have his party newsorgan Ceske Slovo announce: "The London Times today is no more than the mouthpiece of an influential group of titled people who in their paralytic fear of Germany are working...