Word: ultimatumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Linz had hurried from Vienna the Nazi Arthur Seyss-Inquart whom Hitler by ultimatum had forced in last week as Chancellor of Austria (see p. 19). This stooge came only to hand over his country to the German Dictator, did so by officially declaring: "From today the Austrian people consider null and void Paragraph 88 of the Treaty of St. Germain which proclaims Austria's independence...
...demand within five hours a decree by the Austrian Government "indefinitely postponing" the plebiscite. This Chancellor Schuschnigg and Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas, who had just come from the pleasanter business of entertaining junketing Herbert Hoover, felt obliged to grant. Then again CRUNCH!-the Dictator sent by airplane his ultimatum that the last Chancellor of Austria (that is, of independent and sovereign Austria) must resign. This message was carried by Herr Josef Bürckel, Nazi leader in the Saar...
...Chancellor declared that German-broadcast allegations of disorder in Austria see p. 18) "are lies from A to Z!" He said Germany "today handed President Miklas [of Austria] an ultimatum with a time limit ordering him to nominate as Chancellor a person designated by the German Government...
...police, already wearing swastika brassards, augmented by roving bands of Hitler Youth and Storm Troops. A great roundup and lockup of Socialists, Communists, labor unionists and Fatherland Fronters. the only legal party under Chancellor Schuschnigg, was instantly begun, and Seyss-Inquart sped to Linz to greet his master, Hitler. Ultimatum-bringer Josef Bürckel stayed in Vienna to reorganize the Austrian Nazi Party and prepare a plebiscite for April...
Shattered, Dr. Schuschnigg departed, carrying back to Vienna a 72-hour ultimatum, to which Austria's President Wilhelm Miklas, capitulated...