Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Secretary Hull's notes amounted to was recognition of Hitler's coup by handing him a bill. German reaction was complacency that the coup had been recognized at all. Said the Berliner Tageblatt: "In collecting some statements of leading American personalities - statements that were amazingly estranged from realities-we note with satisfaction that in the face of so elementary and at the same time so organic an event as Anschluss the sense of realities broke through in Washington as well...
...Facto. News that Austria had ceased to exist as such was first officially presented to the State Department by Germany's Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff day after the Hitler coup. Three days later, Austria's popular Minister Edgar Prochnik called to announce that the functions of his legation-long the scene of some of Washington's nicest parties-had indeed been taken over lock, stock & barrel by the German Embassy...
...legal language, what this amounted to was de facto recognition of Hitler's coup, which was far from equivalent to de jure approval. With his official announcement, Mr. Hull gave out a curt statement: "The extent to which the Austrian incident . . . is calculated to endanger the maintenance of peace and the preservation of principles in which this Government believes is of course a matter of serious concern to the Government. . . ." And two days earlier, following Messrs. Chamberlain, Hitler and Mussolini in one of the most extraordinary series of statements of international policies on record, he had clearly if somewhat...
...traced the historical background of the Hitler coup, Professor Langer pointed out that the separation of Germany and Austria effected by the Versailles Treaty was a flagrant violation of the self-determination principle, dictated by France's fear of a reborn Germany. Eventual union was inevitable, he said...
...munitions maker, de Wendel, and the No. 1 tire maker, Michelin. On the other hand, exasperated Frenchmen in circles close to the Church and the General Staff have their list of Communists, proletarian militants and officials of the Soviet Embassy in Paris whom they accuse of preparing a Leftist coup...