Word: austro-hungarian
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Professor Shotwell's assistants were recruited rather from among economists and men of affairs than from historians. In England, the board includes Sir William H. Beveridge, John Maynard Keynes, Professor W. R. Scott. In France, Professor Charles Gide, M. Arthur Fontaine, Professors Henri Hauser and Charles Rist. The Austro-Hungarian Chairman is Dr. Friedrich von Weiser. Of the collaborators, 25 have held cabinet offices...
Countess Michael Karolyi, née Andrassy, was once considered the most beautiful woman in Hungary, where a very large proportion of women are beautiful. She is not yet 30 years of age and is the step-daughter of Count Julius Andrassy, last Foreign Minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and a granddaughter of the famous Count Julius, who was the greatest Minister of State that the Monarchy had had since the passing of Metternich...
...Plume was a port of the old Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and is situated on the Istrian Peninsula (not in Dalmatia) on the Adriatic Sea. The area is eight English square miles and the population is 49,806. SignOr Attilio Depoli is the head of the Provisional Government...
...visit to the United States in the summer of 1918, he secured Allied recognition of the Provisional Government of Czecho-Slovakia?the recognition of a Government over a country that did not exist. His triumph was not delayed, for on Oct. 28, 1918, after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Narodni Vybor (National Council) took over the governments of the countries of Bohemia, Moravia, Ruthenia, Silesia and Slovakia, which had formerly belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Less than a month later (Nov. 14, 1918) the National Assembly met at Prague?capital of Czecho-Slovakia?and formally declared...
...classes most eager to emigrate are former Austro-Hungarian army officers, discharged civil servants, skilled factory hands and thousands of well-educated young women previously engaged in war work. Agricultural laborers, miners, etc., are not seeking to leave their country...