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...Mark Pauline Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Mark Pauline Survival Research Laboratories Performs in Austria Briefly, an SRL show consists of a set of ritualized interactions among machines, robots, special effects devices, and compu­ ters, with humans present only as operators...

...Louis Jay Herman Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 THE COMMUNIST SQUEEZE ON AUSTRIA LOUIS JAY HERMAN IN THE INTERVAL between two World Wars tiny Austria provided almost a living symbol of Europe s instability and in­ security. At one stroke the postwar treaties of St. Germain...

...Roy Temple House Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 Graf von Aehrenthal and the Rise of Austria Roy Temple House Professor in the State University of Oklahoma The recent death of the sanest and strongest national leader of modern Austria seems to have brought forth the slightest...

...S. W. Gould Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 AUSTRIA S ECONOMIC FUTURE S. W. GOULD URING THE PAST YEAR Washington, London, and Mos­ cow have committed themselves to the restoration of Austrian independence, extinguished in March, 1938, by the invasion of Hitler s legions...

...Henry Cord Meyer Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 AUSTRIA S ECONOMIC FUTURE* HENRY CORD MEYER THE CLERICAL fascism imposed by Chancellor Dollfuss and his Christian Social party after the destruction of the Austrian Republic in 1933-1934 was of an indigenous variety, and sought...

... agreement with him regarding the stand of their two countries in case of a war with Austria. Premier La Marmora sent General Giuseppe Govone to Berlin, and, April 8, 1866, in behalf of the King of Italy, this repre­ sentative signed a secret treaty of alliance with the King of Prussia. The treaty provided...

... that Austria would ever act as she did? Although an oversimplification, this statement con­ tains a germ of truth. Needless to say, the collapse of the mighty French empire resulted from no single factor, but a complex inter­ play of forces, including such divergent elements as the development of nationalism...

... the powerful fortress of Sebastopol. Fearing that the war threatened to prolong itself indefinitely and perhaps even end in their defeat, the Allies were compelled to seek the assistance of other powers. At first they invited Austria to join with them in the war, but Emperor Francis Joseph hesitated...

... took personal charge of the 1848 outbreak, most Magyars merely wanted to establish a freer regime. They did not want a civil war. Even when an internecine conflict did develop, thanks to Kossuth s inspiration, the rebels fought against the Emperor of Austria in the name of the King of Hungary. Both...

..., and two of them great powers, which, acting in unison, could dominate the federated area, and which, divided, could cause virtual paralysis of the federal organization. The great powers were Prussia and Austria; other states playing significant roles were Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Saxony, Hanover, Hesse...

..., expressed surprise that the Republic of Austria had included so few specimens of Austrian art among these objects: We are, of course, glad to see some of the finest samples of Italian, French, and Dutch art. But it seems to me that one has a right to expect some Austrian works in a show of Vienna...

... and, it is claimed, threatened Turkey s integrity and independence throughout the century. She held most of Poland in subjection, suppressing two Polish revolutions with massive force. In alliance with Prussia and Austria, Russia acted as the gendarme of Europe, not only holding down her own restive nationalities...

... of incorporating states with non-German interests into a German Confederation. Be­ lieving Swabia to be the heart of Germany and considering Austria and Prussia as semiforeign, he projected a German league without them. Similarly, Monteglas of Bavaria aspired to make that state the center of a German league...

... the Stars and Stripes atop public buildings and business houses and from private windows. The verbose Mayor of New York assured Kossuth that he supported Hungary s struggle for emancipation from Austria. Women fought their way through semihysterical throngs to get close enough to kiss the recently arrived...

... Powers would not permit them to have a free hand in deciding the fate of Turkey, for both France and England had been active in the Levant, and Austria was also vitally concerned. Moreover, guided by Prince Adam Czartoryski and influenced by religious mysticism, Alexander I had developed a horror of war...

... considering the incidents that led to the im­ mediate outbreak of the war. Both Prussia and Austria-Hungary emerged from the Na­ poleonic wars members of a loose Germanic confederation which the latter power dominated. Before German national­ ism could assert itself this confederation and the dominance...

... of Europe is concerned, nationality as a political force has lost its effectiveness; only among the excitable folk of the Balkan Peninsular is it still a shibboleth of parties. Hence it is that Servia has been excited almost to the pitch of war with Austria because of the latter s formal annexation...

.... Hence the political talk centered around the Socialist-Communist-Catholic coalition regime and the ownership of the oil fields, desired by British, American, and Dutch capitalists, as well as by the present administrators of that region of Austria, representatives of Soviet Russia. But many Americans...

... of value the key importance of Bavaria for Austria and Germany, for example, or the fact that the Confedera­ tion, still only a rudimentary organization in 1815, required further develop­ ment and was still open to various possibilities. 104 The South Atlantic Quarterly But there are also potential...

.... A tragic sequence of events forced the world to reconsider the meaning of fascism and national social­ ism. That ominous list included German rearmament, the Naziinspired assassination of Austria s chancellor, and the Italian attack on Ethiopia. The president and Congress, desperately eager to pre­ vent...