Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Government," cooed Adolf Hitler, "welcomes the spirit of trustful discussion" invoked by France and Britain. With masterly omission, he ignored the Eastern Locarno and the Austrian pacts. With sure intuition, the Little Man grown big sensed that he might insert discord between Britain and France by accepting, only that part of their declaration upon which John Bull sets most store: the Air Pact against unprovoked aerial aggression. Accepting this "in principle," the Realmleader declared that his Government "is therefore willing to seek, in free accord with the powers concerned, ways and means by which such a convention...
...year details of the story have been leaking out (TIME, Nov. 19). Baron George ("Yurek") Sosnowski is an extremely handsome young Pole who served gallantly in the Austrian Army, loves women, excitement. Deeply infatuated with him was the beautiful Baroness Benita von Berg, a blonde whose first husband was Richard von Falkenhayn, son of the late great General von Falkenhayn. Berlin society knew that it was to escape the influence of Polish Baron Sosnowski that beauteous, divorced Benita married stolid Baron von Berg. Curiously, all four remained friendly, all went to the same parties. Sosnowski's parties were enough...
...because she had "no voice" and she struggled for scholarships thereafter, wrote poetry on the side. The first money she earned came from verses submitted to Berlin's Der Tag. In 1910 she made her operatic debut in Hamburg and there she learned routine. One night an Austrian impresario was in the theatre on a hunt for a tenor. He signed up Lotte Lehmann instead...
Solidest blow aimed at the Court itself in this year's battle was Senator Borah's charge that politics rather than law determines its judgments. For proof he pointed to its 1931 verdict against a German-Austrian customs treaty, when the judges divided according to the diplomatic and commercial interests of their native lands. But Senator Johnson voiced the popular argument when he cried: "We are dealing today with one simple proposition-shall we go into foreign politics ? . . . Once we are in, it does not make any difference whether we are in a little way or whether...
...typhus broke out in Serbia. In six months it killed 150,000 Serbs, 30,000 Austrian prisoners. Spreading to Russia, it infected 25,000,000 people, killed 3,000,000. Hindenburg feared to move German troops from the infected Russian border to the Western front...