Word: josef
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polish Corridor near Danzig, the Free City attached to the Polish customs union but ruled by an all-Nazi government. The Germans of Danzig (about 380,000) have long clamored for a "home in the Reich"; Adolf Hitler has long wanted to oblige. But only last week realistic Josef Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, who knows that for every inch Poland gives Germany Fuhrer Hitler will take a mile, was reported to have reminded the Reich that his country would consider the seizure of Danzig a casus belli...
When Adolf Hitler marched into Austria year ago "His Most Apostolic Majesty" Otto von Habsburg, 26-year-old pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne, entered objections. Blustering Field Marshal Hermann Goring answered the objections by calling the Archduke "this comic boy." Nazi Administrator Josef Bürckel dubbed him "Otto the Last." The Nazi police issued a warrant for his arrest for high treason should "His Majesty" ever be caught in Reich territory. Otto remained in Belgium, where he has lived with his mother, onetime Empress Zita, for the last nine years. Last week in Paris, after Führer...
Hats off to TIME for its splendid article on Poland and her Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck [TIME, March 6]. It is certainly the best I have read in any recent publication...
Last week the ruling sovereigns of these two warring States, Herr Hitler and Prince Franz Josef of Liechtenstein, sat down at a Berlin parley. Their subject of discussion: colonies. Prince Franz Josef's colony is a private estate in the Sudetenland, an estate considerably larger than his 5x12 country. Surprisingly for an enemy ruler who wants a colony or two for himself, Herr Hitler made no immediate demands on the integrity of the Prince's colonial empire...
...fight on the side of the Austrians against the Russians. Idea of the Polish Legion was that the greatest part of Poland was held by Russia and therefore Russia was temporarily the greatest enemy. However, the Legion had so little interest in fighting for the glory of Emperor Franz Josef's reign that it was soon interned, to be released only with the War's conclusion...