Word: austro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been dumping cheap cotton goods and manufactures in the country, are negotiating for great tracts of land to grow their own cotton in Abyssinia. Foreign observers believe that France and Britain are now willing for Italy to "influence" Abyssinia in return for pulling France's chestnuts out of the Austro-Nazi fire, and for squashing Japanese competition in Africa...
...Austria last week the Schuschnigg Government blandly asked the Austro- American Magnesite Corp. for a "voluntary gift" of 200,000 schillings...
Without waiting for formal charges to be preferred, Austro-American Magnesite, promptly paid the requested...
Most Germans, even if they paid the extortionate 1,000-mark fee for an Austrian visa, were held up on the Austro-German border on technicalities. But "My Leader's" efforts seemed to attract more visitors than they kept away. From France, Italy, the U. S.. Scandinavia, the crowds poured in. Willem Mengelberg arrived from Switzerland. Arturo Toscanini, who had snubbed Germany's invitation to conduct at Bayreuth, arrived from Italy. King Prajadhipok of Siam and his Queen were on hand. No Nazis could prevent German Bruno Walter from conducting because they had already exiled him. When...
...Masaryk & Benes escaped the country separately after the outbreak of the War. Immediately they began a great series of journeys to Paris, London, Rome, Petrograd, Washington, to convince Allied statesmen of the wisdom of lopping the ancient kingdom of Bohemia and surrounding Slavic territories from the prostrate body of Austro-Hungary to make a new republic. It so happened that this territory contained the rich rolling plains of Slovakia, the great Skoda munitions works, the potent Bat'a shoe factories, rich coal deposits, glass and steel works and the famed breweries of Pilsen...