Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before mobilization has begun. . . . The intricate mobilization machinery of the modern horde army is the easiest thing in the world to throw out of gear. The centralization of water, light, heat and power supplies all make dislocation easier and paralysis more certain." Scarcely had these gentlemen spoken before the Austrian riots wrote finis to Great Britain's attempts at reaching immediate disarmament agreements. Rendered particularly negative was a meeting of Disarmament Conference officials called at London by Arthur Henderson. And still unanswered by Berlin and Paris were the latest disarmament proposals of Sir John Simon. So the British Cabinet...
...shook hands with his beetle-browed confrère, Premier Gömbös of Hungary. It was an occasion. They talked. While the ignorant prattled about the restoration of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Der Kleiner Engelbert, presented with a big bunch of posies by a group of Austrian girls living in the city divided by the Danube, made a cocky little speech...
...built up around the industrial capitalism to keep the reins of power out of the proletariat's hands and the proletariat out of socialism, socialism taxed the individual capitalist out of existence in Vienna. Dollfuss, it seems, wishes to preserve agrarian capitalism without the opposition of Viennese socialists. The Austrian agrarian proletariat, the peasants, found the Maxist doctrine incomprehensible and impractical, and their overlords, the landed aristocracy, found it distinctly undesirable. From them Dollfuss has drawn his party, and since he has the benefit of the national army and the majority of the population, there is little doubt that...
Where do the Nazis and their long-touted anschluss enter the picture? While Hitler has repeatedly persecuted German socialists, there is strong likelihood that many of the Austrian socialists will turn to the Swastika against Dollfuss. If Austrian Nazism gains a working majority in Austria, if Dollfuss can be overthrown, the anschluss is a foregone conclusion. Foreign armed intervention in such a case would be made considerably more difficult in this case than if Germany forced the anschluss by a repetition of 1866. Even in such an exigency, however, it is dubious, as Professor Langer says, if the people...
...providing no attempt is made to achieve the Anschluss by actually joining the two countries together. If this should occur and a Nazi government be set up either by the Germans independently or with the aid of Dolifuss--nothing short of military occupation of the country could prevent the Austrian government from cooperating with Berlin in such a way as to make the Anschluss effective in all but name. Thus the powers have no choice but to intervene, for it is becoming increasingly evident that delay now will be fatal to their interests if not to the peace of Europe...