Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Free Hand/' Other cards laid face up by Halifax reputedly exposed Hitler's claim to a "free hand" in Austria and Czechoslovakia, that is, Der Fiihrer claims that Britain and France have no right to do other than stand aside in case Germany sees fit to use such pressure or weapons as would reduce Vienna and Prague to the status of vassals of Berlin. The British last week found the French as adamant against giving Hitler any such "free hand" as they had just proved unexpectedly agreeable to going as far into the "thieves' bargain" over colonies...
Greater aristocrats even than the Habsburgs in the eyes of many Austrians are the Starhembergs. A few years ago Ernst Rüdiger Prince von Starhemberg, the dashing, amiable head of the House of Star-hemberg-whose ancestors helped save Austria from the Turks in 1693-was not only Vice-Chancellor of Austria but favored to become Regent. He had run out of money of his own to pay his immense private army, the Heimwehr, but was receiving more cash regularly from Premier Mussolini. Suddenly the Prince proceeded to make almost as much of a mess as did Edward VIII...
...insisted upon marrying non-Aryan Nora Gregor whom he had made the star of Vienna's official Burg-Theater, and to achieve this has been pestering the Catholic Church for three years to annul his own aristocratic marriage. Austria is deeply Catholic and wise Rome was unwilling to annul the marriage of a Vice-Chancellor of Austria so that he might marry an actress. II Duce esteemed that the Pope was right, shut off the flow of Italian money to the Prince, and Catholic Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg of Austria neatly wangled Starhemberg out of his Vice-Chancellory. After...
...oratory the inflation of the German mark after the War by Socialists has always figured as "criminal." If this crime should have to be committed again, Nazis must try to distract German public opinion from it by scoring some particularly huge "success"-such as recovering German colonies or absorbing Austria. Up to 1914 the total number of Germans resident in the Kaiser's colonies was only 24,000-less than the number of German residents in Paris. The Fatherland's trade with all German colonies in 1914 amounted to only 1% of Germany's total trade. Today...
...Twilight Song (2:01¼), champion 2-year-old of 1936. Alleged buyer: Italy's Benito Mussolini. For to this year's Old Glory Sale came European agents who effected the biggest exodus of U. S. harness horses since the turn of the Century. To Austria, Germany, France and Italy went 58 horses of the finest blood lines in the U. S. Italy was the biggest buyer, obviously intent on getting the finest stock at any price. The reason was not merely the immense popularity of harness racing in Italy. Ringside gossip had it that Italian experiences...