Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curt statement: "The extent to which the Austrian incident . . . is calculated to endanger the maintenance of peace and the preservation of principles in which this Government believes is of course a matter of serious concern to the Government. . . ." And two days earlier, following Messrs. Chamberlain, Hitler and Mussolini in one of the most extraordinary series of statements of international policies on record, he had clearly if somewhat idealistically redefined U. S. foreign policy with unmistakable reference to recent events abroad as well as at home...
...Forget what?" celebrating German-Austrians asked each other. Suddenly crowds got the crazy idea that Premier Mussolini had presented the Italian Tyrol (pop. 613,000, of whom 230,000 are racially German) to Chancellor Hitler. Soon the big-boned, blue-eyed German troops swinging through German-Austria were greeted with shouts of "Tyrol is Free! Tyrol is Free...
...Europe was simultaneously drawing deductions from the hospitality of Buckingham Palace and No. 10. The Quai d'Orsay was hearing from Rome that Mussolini, now just entering upon negotiations through diplomatic channels with Chamberlain and already on an Axis with Hitler (TIME, Nov. 2, 1936), was "in these circumstances" not again going to mobilize Italian troops along the frontier of Austria as he did in 1934 after the Nazi assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss...
...Education and Justice as a future Austrian Chancellor-until he happened not to be with Dollfuss and most of the Cabinet on the day Nazi assassins captured the Chancellery (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). While they were murdering Dollfuss and figuring that German troops would do the rest, Benito Mussolini was bluffing down Adolf Hitler with his mobilization of Italian troops, and Minister of Education and Justice Kurt von Schuschnigg was coldly, efficiently acting as emergency Chancellor, rallying the troops and police "for God and Austria...
...Good Germans." As Chancellor in succession to his murdered friend Dollfuss, Kurt von Schuschnigg saw 13 Nazis hanged. Soon he was recognized by those shrewd judges of character, Pope Pius and Premier Mussolini, as a statesman of commanding powers. He proved his ability by maneuvering out of the Austrian Vice-Chancellorship famed fun-loving Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, who once had an Austrian private political army of 125,000, aspired to the Austrian Throne. Pious Kurt von Schuschnigg long wished to restore "His Most Apostolic Majesty Kaiser Otto von Habsburg." This week, however, Otto's goose...