Word: prochnik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Adolf Hitler took over Austria, his Ambassador in Washington, Hans Dieckhoff, quietly took over the Austrian Legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue without protest from popular Austrian Minister Edgar Prochnik. Last week Dr. Hans Thomsen, German Chargé d'Affaires (who in the continued absence of Herr Dieckhoff is Adolf Hitler's No. i man in the U. S.), received orders to take over the building standing right next door to the late Austrian Legation-the Legation of Czecho-Slovakia. He ordered two secretaries to go over and take possession. After they left he rang...
...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...
Austria owed the U. S. some $25,000,000, enjoyed most-favored-nation trade status. Since problems presented by debts, tariffs, immigration, consular service will henceforth have to be settled through Berlin, it was obviously impossible for Secretary Hull not to recognize the annexation. Two days after Mr. Prochnik's visit, Mr. Hull announced with diplomatic prolixity that "the events pertaining to the changes which have taken place in the status of the Austrian Republic will necessitate, on the part of the Government of the United States, a number of technical steps, which are now being given appropriate consideration...
...Washington the Austrian Minister, Edgar L. G. Prochnik, last week presented President Hoover with an equestrian statuet of Washington made of Austrian china. The Smithsonian Institution was preparing an exhibit of Washingtoniana. Rehearsals for Wake field, a folk masque by Percy MacKaye to be presented at Constitution Hall Feb. 21, were under way. The manuscript of one of Washington's Thanksgiving proclamations was displayed in the Library of Congress...
Engaged. Loranda Prochnik, daughter of Edgar Prochnik, Austrian Minister to the U. S.; and Francis Le Compte Spalding, Boston socialite, student at the Foreign Service School in Washington...