Show I RIGHT TO JOIN GERMANY VII VITAL AL ALI I I of Austria Held to Have Voice in S Self lf Determination Berne Jan 28 German Austria under tho the terms of or President Wilsons Wilson's fourteen points has a l. l right to self self- determination an and a n. right to join German German Germany Ger Ger- man many declared 1 Karl arl Seltz Seitz president l ent of ot the German Austrian national as assembly assembly as- as in a l. l statement today to the theA A Associated Iress Press Ho lie declared that it was bras Impossible to form a re federation of or orthe the Danube from discordant elements clements of or Hungarians Poles Czechs Slavs and Germans 1 A 1 misunderstanding regarding regarding- the present status of or German Austria la Is apparent in tho tha outside world Herr Seltz Seitz declared The belief belle Is general that it is 11 mere merely the tho shrunken remains of or tho the old monarchy monarch minus th tits the states which have established their own gov gov- German Austria today toda is no Ito nomore more the tho shrunken oll remains of or tho the old state slate than Czecho Slovakia or Hun Hun- Hungary gary It is I simply an entity desiring to exercise the rl right ht of or self sel tion Uon and to join Germany in self pro Gorman Austria is a l. l democratic national national na national na- na state which stands upon the basis repeatedly taken by b the entente statesmen that peace to be durable must bring a practical and workable 1 territorial rearrangement of or national relations I. I In in en in Fora Interpret til UJ V n President Wilson's Wilsons s statement regardIng regarding regard regard- lo ing the right of or self determination in inthe inthe th the sense sf-nse that wo we can Join our OUI mother only In that country count Germany because wn way can our national and economic conditions of oC existence be he assured and future war avoided Al Absorption J Denounced Herr Seitz Seltz directed attention to what he 1111 call called d the tine injustice of or permitting tho the Czechs to absorb German Bohemia and tho the Italians to have havo south Tyrol Tirol The Germans and Austrians he ho added either solution but out would never ne accept would bear eith either r as aJ a hated yoke youe ole with the tho firm resolve to shako It off ott at the first opportunity The Tho Danube confederation was wae spurned by IJ b Herr Seltz Seita as utterly uller un unworkable un- un workable chiefly he said auld because neither the Czechs Czecha nor tho the Poles Poloa and least leant of ot all tho the Jugo Slavs would consent consent consent con con- sent or consider the uniform laws which would bo be absolutely essential Ho Ile confirmed tho the disclosures recently recent- recent lv ly made IJ by Dr Otto Bauer foreign minister of or German Austria that Hungary Austria purpose purposely had framed tho the Serbian ultimatum in such a wa way as to mal make e It unacceptable Germany Kept In Vork The statement says saS seven drafts of ot tho the ultimatum were made and at last lasta a n final and satisfactory on ono one was framed Probably this Is a l. l matter of or record in Vienna according to I Herr err Seltz Seitz Ho lie added that it was his belief belle that Germany did not know the terms of the ultimatum and that the thu Austro- Austro h lIun politicians politician quite stupidly l overlooked o Prussia's readiness to come cometo cometo to the tho aid uM of or Serbia Seltz Seitz has had a n remarkable c career career reer and ami he- he He lie was born of poor POOl parents came cume an orphan earl early In life lie He re received re- re calve virtually no education until he ho 4 r was 13 15 years eara ol old when friends sent him to a teachers' teachers school Ho Ito became a teacher at 20 O. O Later r he I was elected to tho the lower Austrian and to the Austro legislature where for a long long- longtime time ho was tho the only socialist member Ho lie always ala alv s was rc regarded as the logical successor of or the late lato Victor Adler the Austrian socialist leader |