Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eric Phipps to be handed to Adolf Hitler. All the good Conservative caution and breeding of which British gentlemen are capable had gone into toning down the original questions. In the whole document there was not a single question mark. Cabinet members had struck out all reference to Austria, Memel, Eupen and Malmedy, keeping those possible objectives of Adolf Hitler beyond the pale of polite conversation. They had struck out Captain Eden's question about Hitler's intentions regarding the refortification of the Rhineland. Most important of all, they had struck out every mention of Hitler...
...Cabinet crisis that would allow his Heimwehr to take over the Government (TIME, April 20). Chancellor Schuschnigg's next move was to attempt to force the dissolution of Prince von Starhemberg's well-equipped private army on the ground that the Heimwehr was no longer needed since Austria had adopted military conscription for its regular Army. Sticking out his chin, Prince von Starhemberg snapped that the Heimwehr would be disbanded only "over my dead body...
...years in which he was rooting his company into every cranny of Austria, pudgy Dr. Berliner took no chances with political investigation. With magnificent liberality he bribed every political group that might possibly make things difficult for him. The amount of the bribe evidently depended on his estimate of the relative political importance of the organization to be bribed. Examples...
ELIZABETH. EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA- Count Egon Corti-Yale University Press ($4). A sympathetic, frequently sentimental life of Franz Joseph's beautiful, neurotic consort. Skillfully told, carefully documented, it should provide a mine of anecdote for specialists in court gossip...
Hero Prince. Reich War Minister von Blomberg last week stole Austria's greatest war hero. In all German garrison towns was read a proclamation setting forth, on the 200th anniversary of the death of great Prince Eugene of Savoy, that Eugene was a Pan-German hero who had saved Germany from the "predatory greed" and "plundering, burning and murdering armies" of France's Louis...