Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King drove Mrs. Simpson to their favorite Bristol Hotel, at which they stopped a year ago when he was Prince of Wales. After lunch His Majesty went to a public bath with his chauffeur and six detectives, booked his own ticket at the wicket. Handing this to an Austrian bathwoman who did not recognize him, the King was scrubbed and, with his chauffeur and detectives all in a state of nature, walked about the vapor room where His Majesty was recognized by goggle-eyed Austrian bathers...
...them, 17 newly organized Socialist and Communist battalions about to leave for the front last week paused in Madrid to adopt this startling resolution: "Stalin has deserted to the Fascist camp! He is trying to sabotage the Spanish workers as in the past he wrecked the chances of Chinese, Austrian and German proletarians. Down with Stalin...
Although there is little liveliness in Author du Coudray's discussions of the metaphysics of diplomacy, the high point of her book is her account of the Congress of Vienna which cost the Austrian Emperor $30,000,000 and was attended by "five sovereigns, two hundred and sixteen heads of families and a host of lesser princes, ambassadors, envoys and intruders." Fourteen hundred horses were kept for their use. Court dinners were served on 40 tables. An army of secret police spied on the guests, so that every day the Austrians knew what had happened in bedrooms, at luncheons...
Since Metternich's career was an almost unbroken series of triumphs after Napoleon's fall until his own, in the Austrian Revolution of 1848, his biography deals principally with intricate diplomatic maneuvers, grows more tedious as it advances. The best pages in Author du Coudray's book consequently cover Metternich's relations with Napoleon, and the Congress of Vienna. Born in Coblentz in 1773, Metternich was educated at Strasbourg a short time after Napoleon. He possessed a practical, precise mind that made him disinterested in diplomacy, interested in science. Leaving his diplomatic apprenticeship in Dresden...
...Through the new German-Austrian treaty, Germany has renounced at least for the present, any ambition to absorb Austria. It is clear that Russia, even though credited in some quarters with being ready enough to see trouble elsewhere, is not believed to have any provocative plans on the West or on the East...