Word: austro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Van Horn Moseley is a military freak. While in service most army officers feel obliged to bottle up their opinions, but he has not hesitated to announce his belief that more money should be spent on syphilis prevention and less on national defense, that immigration of Austro-German refugees should be facilitated but they should be sterilized before being admitted to the U. S. Last week tart, leathery Major General Moseley, having passed 43 years in the service and two in command of the U. S. Third Army, retired, as all army men must do at 64. News editors...
...Sudeten Mountains have been the traditional Austro-German frontier, he stated. Successive attempts at domination of Central Europe have never stamped out the small nationalities, and the Versailles Treaty merely recognized in Czechoslovakia what had always been an economic unit, the anti-Nazi professor continued...
...break a bottle of German champagne over the nose of the newest 10,000-ton German cruiser. "I christen thee the Prince Eugen!" she cried. Emotional Hungarians were deeply moved, for historic Prince Eugen was no German. More than two centuries ago under the Habsburg banner of the Austro-Hungarian dynasty he delivered the Danube valley from the Turks...
First battlefield appearance of Red Cross units was in the Dano-Prussian War of 1864. The Red Cross was respected as a protecting symbol for doctors, nurses, medical units in many later wars-the Austro-Prussian, the Franco-Prussian, the Russo-Japanese, the Balkan, the World War, in some Colonial wars, in a few civil wars. Not until 1935 did the first flagrant, consistent abuse of the Red Cross symbol occur. Then giant red crosses painted on Ethiopian hospitals became welcome targets for Italian airmen. Against this abuse, International Red Cross President Max Huber, former justice of The Hague...
...Sudeten region given back to Germany. The Czechs grimly joke that if an anschluss were granted it would not be long until they were anschlussed, too. In point of fact, any dismemberment of Bohemia would be fatal to the Czechoslovakian Republic. Bohemia, seat of some 80% of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire's industries, is the industrial heart of the Republic. Effective and prosperous, it is the one island of conventional, economic well-being now in Central Europe.* Czechoslovakia is turning it over to nobody, and that is one reason why President Benes can confidently tell visitors that...