Austria Strife Rises From Economic Cause Nation Slowly Rots When Peace Treaties Make It Head Without V Body WASHINGTON July 26 CAP CAP AP What alls ails Austria In what was once the worlds world's gayest civilization ci despair stalks Mens Men's hands are turned against each other A chancellor He lies dead murdered in his chancellery The world watches fearing tearing war What Is u the reas reason n Students have found much of ot the 1 answer in economics I Austria is a head without a bod bodVar body War Var performed that operation Before the war Vienna was the worlds worms most brilliant capital The old empire boas boasted ed ed more than people anI and over square miles of ot territory When the surgery of or the peace treaties was finished Austria separated from a dismembered Hungary Hungar had less than inhabitants and little more than ban square miles Much of the land Jand left her was mountainous s. s forested poor poor for farming farm farm- arm arm- ing ng Natura Natural resources were comparatively com com- slender lender r. r Around this pitt- pitt ful CuI ul remnant su suspicious neighbors began began be be- gan erecting tariff walls And in the midst sat the once proud capital capita a head without a body The old empire despite te defects had provIded free tree trade and a market for Vienna's manufactures Now the hinterland was inadequate to absorb her products or to feed her population population population tion ot of nearly Economic rot set in Austria began be be- gan gart living JivIng on an international dole on loans from the le league of oC nations or r creditor lands The depression redoubled Austria's woes The collapse of at the Kredit great bank of ot Vienna sent senta a shudder through Europe and be beyond yond Mis Misery ry begat political strife strite The nazis have dreamed of ot uniting Austria and Germany The idea is anathema in France Nor has Mussolini ni seen fit to encourage en courage the nazi nad desires 5 Some me say he looks askance at the pan-German pan threat threat of f Austria the Danzig and other territories with German J populations and populations and the consequent change in the balance of power in Europe through new political political cal alignments