Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceaselessly ever since. His family are big in German industry, and big Austrian industrialists recently sat up all night in his legation with Dr. Schacht, president of the Reichsbank. as the pot simmered (TIME, June 29). One day last week Adolf Hitler slipped out of Berlin, ensconced himself near Austria's frontier among the motto-encrusted sofa cushions of his snuggery at Berchtesgaden, and von Papen laid before him the whole Deal, as concocted by Mussolini and Schuschnigg, Schacht and von Papen. The German Dictator decided to sign...
Dictators Together. Next night Chancellor Schuschnigg went to the microphone in Vienna and dished the Deal in verbose German-the ideal language in which to express several conflicting ideas at once with nebulous luminosity. His bare fact was that Austria and Germany had made a pact. The Schuschnigg broadcast simply did not get down to brass tacks, and neither did subsequent official announcements. A so-called "summary," but not the text of what had been signed, was issued, and officials admitted that this summary did not cover "secret" clauses which exist in the pact. Trying to guess, the world press...
...Berchtesgaden Pact, hints the official summary, is to end for 25 years the possibility that German troops might be sent into Austria, pledges Germany not to interfere directly in Austrian politics; envisions amnesty for Nazis now in Austrian jails (excepting Nazi terrorists sentenced for such crimes as murder); and, most important, is to restore normal economic intercourse between Austria, whose industries are flat broke, and Germany, who would like to have them get busy making munitions for the frantically rearming Fatherland...
...this is wrapped in much verbosity dear to Teuton hearts. A basic ambiguity has always been that to Germans the very name of Germany is so closely related to that of Austria that the words and ideas are fluid and merge if one "thinks in German." Thus the late great Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria gave his life in maintaining its "independence" from Germany (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), and yet he gave Austria a new Constitution with these words: "We Austrians are German and have a German country...
Article LXI of the Weimar Constitution is constructed entirely on the hypothesis that Austria is already German, its mystic words being, "German Austria, after its Anschluss (union) to the German Reich, shall receive the right of voting representation in proportion to its population. Until that time the representatives of German Austria shall have a consulting voice...