Word: hirtenberg
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Hirtenberg. Last February the Great Powers realized for the first time what steel is in the spine of this little fellow who looks like a cross between Actor Ernest Truex and a French bull pup. Italy, busily weaving Austria and Hungary into his chain of military alliances against France and the Little Entente, had sent some 50,000 rifles and 200 machine guns to be "repaired" at the factory in Hirtenberg near Vienna where they were made (see map p. 15). France and Britain "discovered" that these arms were actually bound for Hungarian troops. They sent a sharp ultimatum...
...rifles plus 200 machine guns entered Austria from Italy. Ostensibly they are being "repaired" at the Austrian factory where they were originally made at Hirtenberg. Actually they were bound for Hungarian troops. Fortnight ago Italian papers splashed out revelations of a secret joint note from France and Britain to Austria demanding that the 50,000 Hirtenberg guns be either destroyed or shipped back to Italy (TIME, Feb. 27). Il Duce's protests at this "ultimatum" did not change the fact that the Austrian government of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is dependent on French and British loans. The Chancellor prepared...
...whole Fascist Press lashed out with revelations of a secret note, jointly dispatched by the British and French Governments to Vienna on Feb. 11 and requiring the Austrian Government to return to Italy a shipment of 50,000 rifles and 200 machine guns now being "repaired" at Hirtenberg in Austria and allegedly destined for Hungary by the Italian shippers...
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