Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Archduke Robert, 24, second son of the late Austrian Kaiser Karl, was sent from Belgium to Paris by his brother Archduke Otto, 26, the Habsburg Pretender, with an offer to recruit a full division of Austrian refugees and send them to fight on the Western Front if Britain and France will announce as one of their war aims "restoration of Austria as an inde pendent State." Already in France with a similar proposal was Austria's onetime Heimwehr troop leader and Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime friend of Adolf Hitler, who recently ordered confiscated...
...Short Notice. Astounding as it was that Adolf Hitler, exponent of Pan-Germanism, should relinquish so lightly one of the oldest European outposts of German commerce and culture, the details of this mass migration were even more amazing. The Balts first learned that they were to be sent back to Germany on a Saturday, when German diplomats first broached the subject to the Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian Governments. On Sunday a special German Commission to arrange details arrived at Riga. On Friday ten German merchant vessels, the first contingent of 42 specially chartered ships, steamed into Riga Harbor to take...
...close of World War I, and in 1919 hungry Finland bought $9,000,000 worth of U. S. food. In 1923, when representatives of the Great Powers started coming to Washington to make refunding agreements, Finland was first to sign up and every year since has punctually sent up to $390,000 to Washington in interest and amortization. Finland in the role of the U. S.'s only non-welshing "war debtor" so impressed the U. S. Congress that in 1935 it voted to spend $300,000 on constructing at Helsinki, the Finnish capital, a splendiferous U. S. Legation...
...votes in 1936, was dissolved. Fortnight ago Premier Edouard Daladier officially ended the Parliamentary session, thus also officially ending the period of immunity from arrest of 72 former Communist deputies, 53 of whom had formed a Workers' and Peasants' Party. Unfortunately, these deputies had also signed and sent a peace letter to Chamber of Deputies President Edouard Herriot which the French Government suspected of being "defeatist propaganda...
...great "Red" hunt was ordered and by last week many Communist deputies and other prominent French Communists (plus many obscure ones) had been arrested, indicted or were being hunted. The most prominent ones were still in hiding, however. French Communist Secretary General Maurice Thorez, sent to the front with an engineer regiment, got a 24-hour furlough, took French leave and made a separate peace. Colorful Andre Marty, who once led a French Navy mutiny in the Black Sea and fought with the Spanish Loyalists, was thought to have disappeared to Russia. Deputy Jacques Duclos, an experienced fugitive from justice...