Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-26 | Page 4 | Tinder

TINDER PARKS flew into tinder in Vienna Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- S SPARKS day that mB may again set all ll Europe ablaze with war Even should comparative calm calm set setin setin in and the Austrian political scene c ne b become come outwardly mit- mit placid underneath it all the socialist- socialist faR nazi fascist conflict is so RO d rooted deep ep rind and nd external cx- cx meddling with the situation so dangerous dangerous dan dan- o gero that th there re can be no telling when the I embers might flash into inLo flame again a Prewar animosities are arc not lend dead The fhe hatreds ha 1111 tre-d tre which motivated the thc socialist ruction of 1027 1927 still boil The abortive civil war of or last February r has left unhealed scars Thc The crushing of ol monarchist hopes early carly in in this mouth month failed to destroy destro them Even within the government th there re is jealousy jealous that threatens threat threat- ens the security of President Miklas Miklas' regime n now w seemingly depending on the federal arm army and the pampered an and 1 favored home guard often at the point of open rupture The appeal to the powers to insure the political po integrity of Austria holds the thc threat of widespread war for Europe in the same moment moment mo mo- no- no ment it may be looked to as an assurance of peace Italy with troops massed on the border border border bor bor- der read ready to back the Austrian fascist government gov gOY repeatedly repeated professing sing as well friendship friend friend- ship for Hitler's reich may be the power that holds th the fate of Europe ur pe in its hands Austria's nazis and those of Germany arc are separated only by the frontier which fails to keep them apart in c common purpose Intervention by Mussolini Musso Musso- lint lini wo would ld be war on nazism certain to provoke provoke pro pro- voke ole se of Germany t to active assistance to th thir r Austrian 4 brethren Nationalism sho shot through though with political ra racial ia and rd religious d dissensions io s i h nd rIvalrIes rIvalrIes' and armies s with factionalism factionalism factIonalism faction factIon- jealousy and ill disguised d disloyalty are the fermenting ingredients in I Europe's caul eaul- dron The possibility that lu t her ller soil may once again be drenched with blood is not hot remote Instability i is characteristic of the government in every chief European state save sae Britain and Italy The outlook is one to burden the world with gravest concern Despite t the e volume plume of news that clogged th the cables T Wednesday and today uncertainties doubts contradictions and nd rumors are so hopelessly hopelessly hopelessly hope hope- lessly confused d that no possibility exists for resolving ng the facts into juto an orderly arrange arrange- ment nent Names of statesmen and their utterances utterances utterances utter utter- ances ances can mean noh nothing ng im immediately Today's odas cle developments if anth anything ng approaching calm appraisal of the situation can can be brought t about in hi the principal chancelleries ma may to clear up whit what is js a as yet et the most ominous sky that has arched in 20 over Europe years ears I. I