Word: austro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should Adolf Hitler desire to absorb Liechtenstein, he could meet little resistance, for the country has no army, no defenses and no military alliances. It sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, but its 81 soldiers did not reach the front in time to fight. In 1914-18 Liechtenstein was neutral. Liechtenstein is 15 miles (beeline) of the upper Rhine Valley. It is a flag stop on the Paris-Budapest railway. The scenery is unbeatable; on the east side of the valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village...
...constituted a principality in 1719 by diploma from the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg often turned to the House of Liechtenstein for their brides. Austrian Kaiser Franz Josef once named Liechtenstein's Prince Franz Paul, who abdicated last week, as Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the Imperial Russian court. The art collection of hoary Prince Franz Paul is one of Europe's finest...
...Jewish ear specialist, Professor Heinrich Neumann and Vienna's Aryan Mayor Richard Schmitz. New laws on all sorts of subjects, including complicated economic regulations, were being promulgated by simply reading them over the radio. Frantic Viennese businessmen strained to catch each word. What had been the Austro-German frontier was swept away, thus abolishing customs duties; German-Austrians learned the economy of their country had been meshed with the Göring Four-Year Plan (TIME, Nov. 2, 1936); and April 10 was set as the date on which "the German men and women of Austria" will vote...
...Germans and Austrians the word Lied means simply song. To the rest of the world it means a particular kind of song, as peculiarly Austro-German as Knackwurst. In Italy, where a beautiful voice is regarded as a princely possession, songs are likely to have melodies constructed to show off beautiful voices. In France, where Art is for epicures, songs are likely to be skillful, titillating and sophisticated. But the Austro-German Lied is a miniature music-drama in which words, melody and accompaniment play equal parts. More important than the contour of its melody is the dramatic mood...
...Ph.D. in 1876. Two years later he married an American, Charlotte Garrigue, who died in 1923. After a long career of teaching and cafe politics, he founded his own political party, was elected to the Diet in 1907. With the World War, Masaryk, sensing the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, won the Allied powers to the cause of a national Czechoslovakia. First gesture of grateful Czechs was to elect him President, which post he held until failing health forced him to resign in 1935; last gesture of grateful Czechs was to award him seven years ago a private fortune...