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Show DISCUSS HI OF REPUBLICS Austrian Secretary of State Declares Only Means of ! Preservation. i j VIENNA, Thursday, Nov. 21 (By the j Associated Press; delayed). Pr. Otto J Bauer, secretary of state, today con-: con-: versed with the correspondent on the ! subject of a union of the Austrian re-I re-I publics and the federation of German re-! re-! puh!k-s. "It would nppear," said Br. Eaupr, "to ! be our only mc;ms to preserve to us any polilical and commercial prosperity and : to prevent our being encroached upon bv j the larger states near by. It must be admitted the Germans are a wonderful 'business people, and also that they have coal and Iron and likewise an outlet to the sea. facilities which would become out. Also their language and literature are the same as ours." The secretary of state abided the bos-; tility of the Czechs and Hungarians lo- ward the Austrian.; and. the reports that ! efforts would be made by the Czechs evi'D to take part of Gorman-speaking Austria, made a union of the Wm;-n 'states neces.-ary f.r self-preservation. He sa id t hero was a not her proposa ) to cre-atft cre-atft along the Pamibe new republics. U was evidenl lo observers here, pr. Tlauer eorit inued. the peace cun f "renee nut.-;: aid in the sr-tillng of the difficulties difficul-ties of ice new republics f,nd lead th-m toward prosperity. ' '? s'i'd he ;uiii other oth-er members of tiie u'-'Vernmenf had been rather re'..-ved to learn that there would be a mission s'nt by liie allies to help in the adjustment of boundary disputes to the. sat isf,icti..:i of all concerned and with the chief ohjei-l. r f prevent' insr n-v wars. As the Czechs have a st-on army, Pr. leaner eont intied, tb.ey are feai-'d both i n A ust ria a nd HungT ry, whose wa r ma -: t-rlal was mostly alindoned on the ilralhin front or eNe s-ized during (he re. ! trei t . The J ugo-Sla vs, ho we vi-r, ;vfe I H u nifarians. t iif se.-retary of state er,n -i chi'i.-d. and he felt that they -a ould re. j si.L t lie efforts of th? Czcrh- to take ifresbLii- arid other points ciainval hv them. |