Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each other in the Danube last week as lights flashed in the Royal Palace overlooking Budapest where statesmen sat down to nibble caviar and quaff champagne. The party was a meeting of the Rome Protocol States, organized over three years ago when Benito Mussolini succeeded in more definitely attaching Austria and Hungary to Italy as satellites. What was afoot was a whole series of moves by Fascists and Fascist sympathizers: 1) against Leftist Spain; 2) against the League of Nations; 3) against Communism; and 4) against France...
...conference in Budapest, symbolic of the other Fascist moves last week, went Premier Mussolini's son-in-law, Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano; keen, Jesuit-trained Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria; and, as host, Hungarian Foreign Minister Kalman de Kanya. Unfortunately for them, Austria and Hungary are no longer so important to Italy as they seemed when they were the only sizable satellites II Duce could get to revolve around Rome. In recent months Yugoslavia has come under strong Italian influence (TiME, Dec. 20 et ante) and Germany, the planet at the other end of the self...
...Important for the immediate future was a communique in which Chancellor Schuschnigg and Foreign Minister de Kanya declared that "if the League of Nations should become an ideological group" then Austria and Hungary will have to "revise their relations" with it. These guarded words referred to the possibility that the League, now that it lacks Germany, Italy and Japan, may come to be considered as primarily a Democratic alliance opposed to Fascism. The Swiss Government has already served notice that the League cannot remain at Geneva if it loses its universal character. Reason: The neutral Swiss dare not let their...
...edification of the general public that she despised. She wrote him almost every day for eight years, giving information about English and Russian politics, scandals and her own repeated triumphs, and acting in general as Metternich's spy. She was so powerful that it was said Austria had two ambassadors in London, the official one and Dorothea. Dorothea and Metternich so wangled state affairs that they were able to meet on three occasions, but when Metternich remarried in 1827 their relationship ("already injured by differences of opinion on Near Eastern politics") was broken...
...Carnegie Steel mills in Duquesne. Leaving public school at 14, Cadman took up music in earnest, and 14 years later supported himself in Pittsburgh by playing the organ and teaching the piano. After two years as music critic of the Pittsburgh Dispatch he spent a short time studying in Austria...