Word: zollverein
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Trick on Austria, As expected, the League Council shifted to the World Court last week the job of passing on the legality of the Austro-German attempt to form a "customs union" or Zollverein (TIME, March 30, et seq.). Scot Henderson at this point nearly took Austrian Dr. Johann Schober into camp...
...long with us to guide us, lead us, advise and inspire us." At this roar from the British Lion, the other animals in the League Ark took their cue, applauded. Square Head? Dr. Julius Curtius, smooth-shaven German Foreign Minister -the man whose policy of Austro-German Zollverein (customs union) dealt such a blow to M. Briand's presidential chances -conferred privately with Chairman Briand before the Commission...
...They agreed that neither would raise the Zollverein issue in commission, leaving it to be discussed by the Council of the League. Dr. Curtius then got it into his German head that he could keep this promise by talking about the merits of customs unions in general, not mentioning Austria or Germany. When he proceeded to do so, Chairman Briand, his nerves raw, may have thought Dr. Curtius was either a squarehead or no man of his word. Briand cut in: ". . . We must not attempt what it is forbidden to attempt!* . . ." This enraged Dr. Curtius, who seemingly thought...
...Germany. But half the shopkeepers in France had been scared out of their wits. The Hitler threat had time to fade and blend, but suddenly came the threat of Anschluss (TIME, March 30, April 6). Dr. Julius Curtius, the German Foreign Minister, negotiated with Austria a plan for a Zollverein (customs union) with Germany, in such heavy-handed fashion that everyone knew Anschluss (a political union) to be his object. France mortally hates & fears to see her former enemies unite. Had the late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann remained German Foreign Minister, he would have been smart enough to keep Anschluss...
...other words the Briand way to combat Zollverein is to offer Germany and Austria something better, perhaps a general European cartel based largely on wheat. To maintain a balanced exchange of wheat and manufactures throughout Europe, the plan provides for a system of reciprocal tariff rebates between those countries which are buyers of wheat and exporters of manufactured goods and those which are exporters of wheat and importers of manufactured goods...