Word: austro
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...little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss climbed down from his railway carriage at Budapest one day last week and shook hands with his beetle-browed confrère, Premier Gömbös of Hungary. It was an occasion. They talked. While the ignorant prattled about the restoration of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Der Kleiner Engelbert, presented with a big bunch of posies by a group of Austrian girls living in the city divided by the Danube, made a cocky little speech...
...French domestic crisis has had a most unfortunate effect so far as the Austro-German situation is concerned. It now seems to be generally accepted that the Dollfuss regime will be unable to weather the Nazi storm, unless it is supported by England, France, and Italy. In any such coalition the most aggressive member would undoubtedly be France, and upon her would devolve the unpleasant duty of putting the screws on Germany. But with French politics in their present state of turmoll, that country is able to devote but little attention to foreign affairs. Consequently, it becomes increasingly likely that...
Skiing down the glittering white shoulder of a Bavarian alp on the Austro-German border a group of black spots loomed large to an Austrian frontier patrol. In the huge, still basin a single shot sounded loud, a puff of smoke looked small against the snow. One of the coasting black spots crumpled, slid into a sprawled heap. Thus did a nervous Austrian soldier kill one Philipp Schumacher, private in the German Reichswehr...
...that Marxism has been exorcised, the Catholic Church very cleverly ceases active support of Dollfuss, whose only opponents are the Nazis. Thus they avoid a possible loss of favor, should the Nazis win. The issue is now between Austrian capitalism and Austro-German capitalism. The Church has conclusively proved that its interest was not in Austria, but in capitalist, Austria...
...pieces of the exhibition range in size from huge altars to small crucifixes. Vestments of the clergy, chalices, stained glass, mosaics, and other pieces which play a part in religious worship have all been gathered to depict the trend of modern Austro-Germanic church design. Models and photographs serve as a background...