Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austria and other districts of Greater Germany the plebiscite called by Adolf Hitler is not to be held until April 10, but balloting began last week on German ships and among Germans living outside the Fatherland. Der Führer won the plebiscite most recently held in Germany by 98.79%, but in last week's "early returns" Adolf Hitler was officially announced to be getting exactly 100% of the vote, thus for the first time drawing up level in popularity with Joseph Stalin...
...very powerful radio transmitter of the Papal State went on the air in German with a broadcast heard all over Greater Germany and taken by most listeners to be a condemnation of Cardinal Innitzer for having yielded to force, combined with an injunction to Catholics that in the plebiscite they should vote according to their consciences rather than Innitzer. An official Vatican translation of this broadcast into Italian was supplied to journalists by Papal dignitaries...
Snow-bearded, 84-year-old Prince Franz Paul I, ruler of the 65-square-mile principality of Liechtenstein, which snuggles up in the central Alps between Switzerland and Greater Germany (see map), has not visited his tiny nation for five years. He has run his Government by long-distance from Vienna and his Czechoslovakian estates. Last week the aged ruler suddenly abdicated at his hunting lodge near Semmering, Austria, named his 31-year-old third cousin, mustached, dapper Prince Franz Joseph, as his successor...
While the old Prince assured his 10,200 German-speaking subjects that he had abdicated because of his age, observers opined that apprehension over possible annexation by his new neighbor. Greater Germany, lay behind his move. Prince Franz Paul has no desire to be on the throne if Nazi Germany gobbles Liechtenstein. His wife, whom he married in 1929, is a wealthy Viennese Jewess and local Liechtenstein Nazis have already singled her out as their anti-Semitic "problem." The new Prince has no Jewish connections, is unmarried...
...Liechtenstein now becomes part of Greater Germany the inhabitants will almost certainly lose their most cherished liberty-freedom from taxation. The ruling Prince, having long footed the Government bills himself, discovered in 1926 a way to relieve the strain on his own diminished income. Watching the rise of confiscatory taxes on corporations, wealthy citizens in Europe and the U. S., he smartly invited foreign corporations and private citizens to incorporate in his state and pay minimum taxes. Since then these foreigner-paid taxes, small as they are, have paid some 45% of the nation's expenses. The Liechtenstein family...