Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrians screamed "We See Our Leader!'', "One Führer, One Reich!" Many went down on their knees as the Mercedes passed, and after it had gone by some groveled in Hitler's wheel tracks, scooping up handfuls of the Austrian earth into which had bitten the sharp treads of his German tires...
...join the 400 sent by 35 other colleges to this 12th assembly of the League. Original plans will be changed by resolutions at the opening congress to permit the group to discuss aspects of the European scene which have appeared in the past week. Whether to seat the Austrian and Spanish Rebel delegations are problems of procedure which confront the assembly today...
...There is no great chance of a European war developing directly from the Austrian crisis," William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, predicted last night as he told an audience of 200 in Adams House that it is doubtful whether the Rome-Berlin axis can survive the strain Hitler's latest move has placed...
Fiume. After the War only a crazy man or a genius would have thought of attempting to seize the Austrian port of Fiume with a few hundred Italian stalwarts, defying the Paris Peace Conference and high-minded Woodrow Wilson, who was at the zenith of his efforts to end seizures by force. For 15 months D'Annunzio ruled Fiume as its fantastic Dictator, among other things granted himself by decree a divorce he had been vainly trying to get for years. The Dictator of Fiume even issued a proclamation "declaring war on Italy," but delighted Italians knew...
Died. Gabriele d'Annunzio ("The Archangel Gabriel"), 74, great Italian poet, patriot, lover, soldier and mystic; of a brain hemorrhage; at his fortified Villa Vittoriale on Lake Garda. He lost an eye as a war-time aviator, created an international crisis after the Armistice by seizing the Austrian seaport of Fiume, which he held for four months. Supposedly a great & good friend of Benito Mussolini, who made him Prince of Montenevoso and President of the Royal Academy, bald, brooding d'Annunzio lived as a virtual prisoner, year ago melodramatically announced that he planned to dissolve himself in acid...