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...Plain and the walls of Vienna itself. In World War I, the Allies hoped to emulate the Turk but failed at the start in failing to force the Dardanelles. Lacking support from British and French troops, the Serbians and Rumanians found themselves penned up between the Germans and the Austro-Hungarians on one side and Bulgarians and Turks on the other. The Germans under Falkenhayn and Mackensen had little difficulty in storming the passes in the Transylvanian Alps and the Iron Gate to overrun Rumania. They might try it again...
...memorable day, 25 years ago this week. It was the 550th anniversary, of the battle of Kossovo ("the Field of Blackbirds") in which the Serbs lost their independence to the Turks. It was the day which Franz Ferdinand-Archduke of Austria-Este, Heir Apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne-and his good Czech wife, Sophie, chose to visit Sarajevo, and it was the day when the trigger was pulled which set off World...
...Amschel, founder of the Rothschild fortune, Louis was the only one of six children of the Vienna branch of the clan to be an active director of the family business, the Creditanstalt, State bank of the Habsburgs, of which he became president in 1911. The Rothschild bank survived the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918, remained Central Europe's biggest financial house. In 1929, with a typical Rothschild gesture, Baron Louis rushed to Vienna from a hunting expedition, took over the insolvent Bodencreditanstalt, great Austrian bank, the failure of which threatened the nation's ruin. Two years later...
...which. Meanwhile the Kaiser and court were fearful that the Socialists in the Reichstag (the Social Democratic Party had 112 seats out of 397 in 1912) might forget their "revisionist" doctrines and adopt the naked class war propounded by Karl Marx. Lacking internal flexibility and with the shaky Austro-Hungarian Empire messing up the possibilities of progress to the east, the German economic system had seemingly reached its limits of growth as far back as 1914, Germany's "assisted capitalism" had run head-on into Germany's poverty of resources-a circumstance which was to have an ominous...
...German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian Empires, under whose political organizations most Europeans lived, were swallowed up in the cataclysm-the Austrian ministry appointed for liquidation found the Empire had disappeared before it could map its program. With them went bureaucrats, ruling cliques, political leaders, military castes, police functionaries, armies of officeholders, diplomats, the props and supports of the ruling dynasties. Replacing them came, along with the new States, new political organizations employing new methods to realize new social theories. In Russia a brilliant group of social theorists under Lenin struggled with rival theoricians, Tsarist generals, Allied intervention, for control...