Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Following Nazi Theodor Habicht's "radio ultimatum'' giving Austria eight days to accept a Nazi Government, the Heimwehr men were being sent to the border where 10,000 men of the famed Austrian Legion were supposed to be ready to invade the country through the narrow valley at Braunau-Adolf Hitler's birthplace. U. S. correspondents investigated privately, could find no signs of unusual activity on either side of the border. From Berlin they learned that Handsome Adolf himself had suppressed news of the Habicht ultimatum in Germany and was thinking of pensioning or retiring...
Appropriately launched upon his career as the son of an influential Austrian industrialist, Joseph Alois Schumpeter was born in 1883, in an Austria just beginning to feel the effects of its Industrial Revolution already well under way. As a young man, he studied law, receiving the degree of J.U.D., at at the age of twenty-four, and immediately thereafter, more or less on a lark, went to Cairo to plead cases among the Africans in King Edward's newly created civil courts. Interested in the intense opposition put up by the Egyptians to the vigorous reorganization of their political...
Appropriately launched upon his career as the son of an influential Austrian industrialist, Joseph Alois Schumpeter was born in 1883, in an Austria just beginning to feel the effects of its Industrial Revolution already well under way. As a young man, he studied law, receiving the degree of J.U.D., at at the age of twenty-four, and immediately thereafter, more or less on a lark, went to Cairo to plead cases among the Africans in King Edward's newly created civil courts. Interested in the intense opposition put up by the Egyptians to the vigorous reorganization of their political...
...Fascist party--which in Austria is animated by the same principles that move it elsewhere--necessarily shuts out any sort of party development, there is another and more potent factor making for the decline of Dollfuss. This is the emergence of Starhemberg as the dominant personal force in Austrian politics. His arrival in a preeminent position has obviously been carefully timed, for it was delayed until Dollfuss had been forced to shoulder much of the odium attaching to the suppression of Vienna Socialism and after foreign sentiment had been aroused against the excesses of the Nazis...
...rise of the Prince and from the tactics by which he accomplished this, that the Regency rumors are not only highly significant for the present but also indicative of the future. They are lent additional strength by the fact that this would probably be the ideal solution of the Austrian problem from every point of view but the German. Dollfuss, who is now neither fish nor fowl and who consequently has no power over the elements which he called in to save him would be displaced; a moderate form of Fascism headed by a man of aristocratic antecedents would...