Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Papen, protégé and "best comrade" of President von Hindenburg, out of his Cabinet (TIME, July 9). Impulsively Chancellor Hitler dashed off an effusive letter, "requesting you, Dear Herr von Papen to aid ... in [bringing] back to normal and friendly paths our long unfortunate relations to the German Austrian State. ... I have, therefore, . . . proposed to the Reichspräzident [von Hindenburg] that you should be called temporarily to the post of Minister to Vienna as a special mission at the same time leaving the Reich Cabinet. Once again I thank...
Glad to leave blood-purged Berlin, where he nearly became a "suicide" month ago, Franz von Papen packed up in haste for Vienna where the Austrian Government had by no means decided to accept him as persona grata. Ignorant or careless of diplomacy's rigid code, Chancellor Hitler had committed the unheard of blunder of dispatching an envoy without the prior consent of the nation to which he is accredited. This left Austria free to administer a stinging snub which would make Adolf Hitler the laughing stock of Europe. In Vienna it was said that Benito Mussolini was strongly urging...
...that, although he would not cancel his week-end in the country, he would keep in constant touch by wire with his Foreign Office. To the Commons Sir John announced in language elliptical but unmistakable that His Majesty's Government stands with Italy and France for the preservation of Austrian independence from Germany. London editors were unanimous in flaying the Nazi slayers, echoed the Evening Standard which declared that Germany is "the Dillinger of Europe...
France. Recognizing Italy as the patron of Austrian independence, French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou called in Italian Ambassador Count Pignatti, told him France was ready to act with Britain and Italy in case of need. Premier Doumergue to the Austrian Government: ". . . Odious attempt. . . . France is firmly attached to maintenance of that independence...
Italy. Il Duce to the acting Austrian Chancellor, Prince von Starhemberg: "The independence of Austria has been and will be defended by Italy...