Word: zollverein
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...currently advocated Pan-American isolation from Europe, he said, "It's not very realistic. Many of the South American countries have a large European trade, notably Argentina, and are consequently opposed to isolation. Economic ties in the Americas may be considerably strengthened, but you can't expect another Zollverein...
April: Foreign Minister Aristide Briand's conciliatory policy toward Germany having been discredited in French eyes by the revelation that Germany and Austria planned a zollverein (customs union), Premier Laval put tactful pressure on his own Foreign Office, forcing Old Brer Briand to take a "stronger line" which later forced zollverein into the World Court, where it died...
Almost unnoticed by the world Press, the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague has been sitting these many weeks trying to decide one of the problems that brought on Europe's present chain of crises: whether Germany and Austria should be allowed to form a zollverein or customs union (TIME, March...
White-bearded Johann Schober, Austria's Foreign Minister, did not wait for publication of the decision. The same afternoon he announced that Austria would renounce the zollverein "voluntarily...
...Austrian Foreign Minister let himself be led into an exchange of remarks in English with Mr. Henderson, who said in a general way that Austria and Germany ought to take no further step about Zollverein while this issue was before the Court. Dr. Schober agreed in a general way in English. Quick as a flash Uncle Arthur asked him to repeat and confirm his "pledge." Caught, flushing darkly, Dr. Schober did as the Scotsman asked. In Berlin irate editors soon echoed former German Finance Minister Peter Reinhold who said: "Dr. Schober surrendered completely to Mr. Henderson chiefly because he failed...