Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under title Austria, errs in details in otherwise excellent article. Bundeskanzler Dollfuss did not earn ". . . the Edelweiss embroidered collar tabs, the capercailzie plumes of a First Lieutenant." He did. however, earn the two silver stars of a First Lieutenant. Stars on the collar tabs denote rank in the Austrian army. Edelweiss and "caper-cailzie" plumes are an integral part of the 14th Army Corps, the Edelweisskorps, H. Q Innsbruck, Tyrol, of the old Imperial & Royal Army. . Peasant upbringing and uncertain antecedents were no handicap to promotion to First Lieutenant in the "extremely aristocratic army of Franz Josef." Requirements were high...
...last resort to stop the spread of Nazism southward from Germany. What, King Victor Emanuel asked, of that potent little Nazi-stopper, Austria's Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss who emerged nearly intact last fortnight from a point-blank meeting with an assassin? Zita produced the strange new argument of Austrian Royalists: If Dollfuss were killed, there is no second Dollfuss to take his place. If her son, King-Emperor Otto, were killed, a replacement would be fixed by the law of succession...
Josef A. Schumpeter, professor of Economics, after dining at Dunster House on Monday will lead an informal discussion on one of the great economic problems of today at 7.45 o'clock in the small common room. Professor Schumpeter, the former Austrian minister of Finance, and is now the University's foremost authority on Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle. He is to be the guest of Seymour E. Harris '20, assistant professor of Economics, and tutor in Dunster House...
...Balkan States, old and new, is extremely valuable; and France and Italy, while rivals themselves, are as one in their determination to keep Germany's fingers as far from the pie as possible. If the Anachluss were to go through German capitalists would not only secure the Austrian market but a pivotal position in Central Europe from which to conclude commercial as well as military agreements with surrounding countries. In the small nations in question, where the dividing line between economic and political power is so minute as to be indistinguishable, trade contracts are instruments of political bargaining, and likely...
...perhaps the decisive one, is the Socialist Party. How powerful it is, one has no exact way of telling; the last elections are all but forgotten. But it may be that it is the real defence against an Anschluss, for though the Socialists hate Dollfuss, they hate the Nazis, Austrian and German, even more, and have announced their readiness to proclaim a general strike, or at the worst, civil war, if any Nazi putsch is attempted. It would be odd indeed, though not improbable, if the Little Napoleon were kept in power by the party he so despises. CASTOR...