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...example, Italian goods shipped into Austria, across Austria and on into Ger many would pay duty once (upon entering the Austro-German customs union) and no more, although crossing two political frontiers. Money collected by customs houses around the perimeter of the Zollverein would be pooled, then divided between the Austrian and German treasuries, under a proportional agreement. Since German customs receipts are already pledged under the Young Plan, the question of proportion is a nice...
Monsignor Seipel opposes Anschluss be cause Germany is so thoroughly Protestant that in a United Austro-German state the Catholic Party would not hold that balance of power which it now holds in Austria. There is bad blood between Dr. Schober and Monsignor Seipel. It was not by accident that the Foreign Minister waited to spring his surprise until the Monsignor, ailing with pleurisy and dia betes, had gone to Switzerland...
...exerts all his might to prevent the Zollverein he can do so?for a time. But the diplomacy of the two smart Teutons is for the long pull. By blowing up a trial balloon last week so tremendous that it overshadowed Europe, they turned the dream of Austro-German union into something concrete, something Austro-German public opinion can be educated to demand forcibly...
...revealed as an agent of the U. S. Department of Justice. Kassay was jailed, charged with criminal syndicalism, on the strength of the story of the Department of Justice agent as retold above. Kassay was said to have described himself as a Communist, a former captain in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. He denied both of these allegations, denied the sabotage, spoke of a "frame...
...Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867-1914". Professor Artz, Harvard...