Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sufficiently interested in the matter to try to verify my recollection that the material was indeed camel's hair and, with the co-operation of their Woolens Department, I ascertained that the piece-goods from which they were cut in those days came from Jaeger's, in Austria, were 100% pure camel's hair, and that Brooks Brothers were the only clothing manufacturers in this country at that time to whom Jaeger's sold goods in the piece...
...swiftly being forged by Dictators Mussolini and Hitler. The latter's beefy No. 2 man. Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, has been down to Italy twice in four months to discuss it. Last month Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg went down to Venice from Vienna to find out just where Austria stood in the new picture (TIME, May 3). Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, has been to Berlin for a courtesy call. Last week it was the turn of Hitler's Foreign Minister, Baron Constantin von Neurath, to go to Rome. Count Ciano...
...question of Austria, Mussolini repeated what he had told Chancellor Schuschnigg in Venice, that Italy would not fight Germany to preserve Austrian independence. Baron von Neurath in return gave his assurance that Germany would make no move to annex Austria by arms, would be content "with economic penetration of the Danube basin...
Edward is no Bonnic Prince Charlie full of plots to upset the Government, nor has he shown any but the friendliest feelings toward the brother who took his place. Indeed his silence in Austria compared well with the subtle defamations uttered at conventions by Princes of the Church and with some of the books that rushed to market to capitalize on his misfortune. In return for his service to the Empire in the past and in appreciation of his conduct since abdication, it is not too much to hope that the Government will smile upon him as he prepares...
Awarded. To Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, 40; a decree absolute of divorce from her second husband, Ernest Aldrich Simpson; in London. In Salzburg, Austria the Duke of Windsor hustled aboard a train to join her at Monts, France...