Word: austro-hungarian
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After the first World War, Seymour served on treaty and territory commissions dealing with Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia and headed the Austro-Hungarian division...
...gets set, you will have to batter your heads against the ice blocks and wait for a second thaw." The warning was almost too late. In 1917 the hard-pressed British had had good reason to win Jewish good will, especially in the U.S. and the Austro-Hungarian empire. After the war they had equally good reasons, they thought, to keep their promises to the newly liberated Arabs. The ice pack was already closing...
Lehar's father, a regimental bandmaster in the old imperial Austro-Hungarian Army, wanted him to be a musician, too. So he had worked hard at the Prague Conservatory, studying the violin. When old Johannes Brahms came to Prague, young Franz had fired up his courage, submitted two of his own youthful sonatas to the great composer. After glancing through them, Brahms told him: "Hang your fiddle on the wall and become a composer...
...exile in 1915 when he was a wispy little 31-year-old scholar. He wanted for his Czech people "the freedom of conscience and a lofty ideal of justice." That was his line of thought, but his line of action was to work hard for the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. When it fell, only Habsburgs, sentimentalists and thoroughly wrongheaded people failed to join in the rejoicing...
...Kremlin, through Pravda, squelch the plan to create another great Communist-dominated state? Partly because the Kremlin's bosses, as inheritors of Czarist foreign policy, did not want a revived and enlarged Austro-Hungarian empire; partly (and more important), from fear that their puppets might get out of hand. Party discipline inside the U.S.S.R. has been maintained for so long by police power that Moscow looks askance at Communists like Dimitrov and Tito who control police states of their...