Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France and her allies are leading opposition based on the fear that an economic union will inevitably develop into a political union, a move which would be in direct contradiction to the terms of the Versailles and St. Germala treaties stipulating Austrian independence. France feels that the union will be extended further to include her allies, Roumania and Gzechoslovakia, in an attempt to create a Central European bloc under German leadership...
...bound by the restrictions imposed by the allies in the peace treaties, the union can not be politically aggressive. For France can always check the actual union of the two countries through the Council of the League, which must give its sanction to any undertaking involving the violation of Austrian sovereignty...
Author of this startling play is the late Hans Chlumberg, an Austrian cavalryman during the War. On the night that Miracle at Verdun opened in Leipzig last October, he sank into unconsciousness, died without knowing of the show's success. The son of a military man, a one-time military student himself, he loathed war, wrote his play in protest against it. The Guild, under Director Herbert J. Biberman, has given Miracle at Verdun a skillful presentation. It is overlong (three hours), lets one down a little at the end. but is a tremendously interesting and audacious piece...
...Internally both nations are very much in favor of the proposed union" said Professor Fay. "But there is one possible stumbling-block which may upset the whole apple cart and that is the alarm with which the Austrian Roman Catholics are regarding their probable subordination to the overwhelming number of Protestants in Germany. In Austria the Catholics form a large majority, while in Germany it is just the other way around. Monsignor Seipel is said to have hurried back from Switzerland to Vienna and declared that his followers will support the union only provided it is approved by those nations...
March 19-American première of Austrian Alban Berg's Wozzeck, presented by Philadelphia Grand Opera Company; at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...