Word: austro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conditions. France was willing to stop talking about the Austro-German customs union and pocket battleships, for the nonce. Instead she phrased her political demands a little more politely...
...year ago Emil Szalay, middleaged, plump, walrus-moustached, met George ("Yurga") Endres and Alexander Magyar in the office of the Detroit Hungarian News. Captain Endres, a Wartime flyer of the Austro-Hungarian army, and Captain Magyar (real name: Wilchak), his pupil, wanted to fly from the U. S. to Budapest. The flight would be a great demonstration of protest against the division of Hungarian territory by the Treaty of Trianon after the War. Sausagemaker Szalay (pronounced sah-la-ee) saw his chance. He mortgaged his salami factory for $20,000, turned the money over to Endres & Magyar...
Even Dr. Curtius' own People's Party seemed to want to get rid of him (his popularity has waned since he "bungled" the Austro-German customs union scheme). At a hectic midnight meeting the People's Party caucus ignored pleas by Dr. Curtius and President Luther of the Reichsbank, voted stubbornly and contrarily to desert the Brüning Cabinet, desert Dr. Curtius and go into Opposition. That amazing act shook the Iron Chancellor's nerve. He began to hint to the Socialists (Germany's largest party) that his emergency decree is "subject to amendment...
...Curtius thoroughly bungled the Austro-German attempt to form a customs union (TIME, March 30 et seq.). Dr. Curtius has yet to win a major diplomatic victory. He is a family man, devoted to his small children. Whenever he returns to Berlin from an official mission the crust of his formal reception at the railway station is punctured by their loud whoops. Studious and a hard, clear thinker, Husband Curtius has much that a Foreign Minister should have-has no genius...
Trick on Austria, As expected, the League Council shifted to the World Court last week the job of passing on the legality of the Austro-German attempt to form a "customs union" or Zollverein (TIME, March 30, et seq.). Scot Henderson at this point nearly took Austrian Dr. Johann Schober into camp...