Word: austro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife Zosia, his friend Felix, Marusia, his Turkestan inamorata. In the diary you see Stanislaw's life as a government clerk, his evenings devoted to writing, his wife's attempts to make him a social celebrity, her flirtations to arouse his jealousy. The novel tells of two Austro-Polish war-prisoners (Stanislaw, his friend Felix) sent to a Turkestan farm to help with the crops. The farm is owned and managed by no rustic curmudgeon but by a Polish girl, pretty and strong-willed Marusia. The prisoners spend pleasant months there, become members of a congenial family. Marusia...
...However," he continued, "Instead of one who have two plans, the French with a political one, and the Germans with an economic one. The French people fear that after the Austro-German customs union may come political plans. It is very difficult to know whether we can have in Europe a synthesis of political and economic objectives. I hope it is possible to bring the aims to the same goal...
Last week badgered Foreign Minister Benes said that he knew all the time what had been going on from secret sources, but that it had been his duty to pretend official ignorance. After roundly denouncing the proposed Austro-German pact, after promising to fight it tooth & nail, Dr. Benes wound up with an oracular prediction that the Teutons will not get what they want. "Not many things are eaten," he said smartly, "as hot as they are cooked...
...Austro-German agreement was a surprise to me," began M. Briand, smarter than Dr. Benes. "But we must place such events according to their proper proportion. The prestige of France is above such incidents! But we should not forget that Germany's manner of acting was not good...
...Franco-Italian accord would indirectly serve to magnify the existing distrust between the two countries, while England, through whom the agreement was originally drawn up, is new definitely on the side of Italy, and will do nothing more to patch the relationship. France, too, antagonized by the recent Austro-German customs relationship, is thoroughly on her guard. These added difficulties of a European situation already sufficiently troubled will materially increase the obstacles in the way of full understanding at the coming Geneva conference...