Word: austro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he may be long with us to guide us, lead us, advise and inspire us." At this roar from the British Lion, the other animals in the League Ark took their cue, applauded. Square Head? Dr. Julius Curtius, smooth-shaven German Foreign Minister -the man whose policy of Austro-German Zollverein (customs union) dealt such a blow to M. Briand's presidential chances -conferred privately with Chairman Briand before the Commission...
...France holds that Austro-German union of any sort, political or economic, is forbidden by the post-War treaties...
With the announcement yesterday that the Franco-German dispute over the legality of the proposed Austro-German Customs Union would be relegated to the World Court for an advisory opinion, the present economic situation in Europe has arrived at an interesting and significant phase in its development. Fundamentally it is a repetition of one of the factors which complicated diplomatic relations in 1914, economic jealousy between France and the Central Powers. At that time the friction contributed to the numerous causes for war then existing on the continent. Now the matter is to be settled by arbitration, and will rest...
Centre of their attack was the projected Austro-German Zollverein or customs union, which Frenchmen suspect, probably accurately, is only a first step toward a complete Austro-German political union (TIME, March 30, April 6). Anti-Briandists insisted that as Foreign Minister he should have foreseen, should have prevented the announcement of the Zollverein. Deputy Georges Scapini, always potent in argument because of the sympathy aroused by his War blindness, cried for a greater show of force, a firmer foreign policy. M. Franklin-Bouillon introduced a motion: "Resolved: That for five years M. Briand has constantly been mistaken...
...whether he is president-elect of France or not, he would take train once more to sit in his accustomed seat on the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva. And he delivered a telling blast at the critics who blamed him for doing nothing to stop the Austro-German Zollverein...