Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...louder last week. Adolf Hitler's first anniversary in power, the day for which all Austria waited and worried, came and went with only the popping of a few harmless paper bombs in Vienna's Stephansplatz. In his anniversary speech before the Reichstag, Chancellor Hitler dismissed the Austrian crisis thus...
...German Government's great regret, its relations with the present Austrian Government are not satisfactory. The fault is not ours. The assertion that Germany plans to violate Austria is absurd and incapable of proof...
From the party that sent him first into politics, the stolid thick-necked peasants of the Lower Austrian Bauernbund, Chancellor Dollfuss got a popular demonstration to offset Nazi propaganda. By special trains 100,000 of them came up to Vienna, stomped under streaming banners eight abreast round the Ringstrasse. In the railway station the little Chancellor barked excitedly: "This shows how ridiculous is the allegation that the people are not behind the Government. . . . You are my plebiscite...
...danger to the Dollfuss cause is not that the little Chancellor has lost popularity, but that the average Austrian fears that he may be caught on the wrong side if and when the Nazis do take over the country. Austria's future, as usual, rested abroad. A united challenge to Germany from Britain, Italy, France could save her. But Britain was too timorous, Italy dared not act alone, and France was far too deeply mired in her own political garbage to pay attention...
Indications that the crisis in France has not completely passed are to be easily seen in the move made by M. Doumergue to transfer interest in the domestic situation in France to the realm of foreign affairs. Doumergue has seized upon the Austrian-German question as the one most likely to arcuse interest in France which would be sufficient to divert public opinion from the Stavisky scandal. For years this has been a time honored method in French politics; unfortunately, it has been generally unsuccessful; in 1830 it came too late to avert the collapse of the monarchy...