Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Those escaping to Jugoslavia after Dollfuss' murder were interned, those attempting to escape to Italy were turned back...
Regarding the murder of the little Chancellor, just what would be the sporting thing to do, should you want to rid your nation of a dictator who substitutes machine gun and noose for public support...
More to the point of Fascist journalism was a scare started last week by Rome's authoritative Messaggero to incite Italians against Jugoslavs, their traditional foes. According to Messaggero imaginative Nazis peppered Jugoslavia in advance of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss' murder with pamphlet maps suggesting that Germany and Jugoslavia should cooperate in arms. A fantastic "Map of Europe in 1935" showed Jugoslavia gorged with Italian and Austrian territory while "Greater Germany" had been so extended as to include Alsace-Lorraine, the Netherlands, parts of Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania and enough of Italy to give Germany...
...Mendieta to Cuban Telephone demanding that it re-employ certain strikers, including men who had committed acts of sabotage last spring. Loyal employes were subjected to weeks of terrorist intimidation. Several had their houses bombed. Last week they manifestoed: "We will not work with strikers who have tried to murder us." But President Mendieta, convinced that he was posing as the Friend of the Masses, pushed on with his ultimatum which was flatly rejected by U. S. General Manager Henry C. Hart of Cuban Telephone...
...dare we lift our eyes to Thee, for we are guilty as a nation of tolerating the practice of vile mob murder of men. . . . Cleanse our hearts, we beseech Thee, of the dark sin of race prejudice...