Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-05-15 | Page 6 | Austria Rocks the Boat

Austria Rocks the Boat I last three three days' days events in Austria may THE require the amending of the old Viennese saying aying The situation in Germany is serious b but t not hopeless the situation in Austria is hopeless hopeless hope hope- l less ss but not serious If statesmen's pledges are are re worth the breath breth that utters utter them in fu th these se uncertain days Europe and the rest of the world should be composed by Dr assurance to Mussolini that Austria will remain remaina a loyal ally But this his cannot stifle apprehension sion zion of possible very disturbing dev developments ts All AIl Italy is drunk with the victory in In Africa Italians cheer the duces duce's veiled hint that Italy may quit the thc league and it would not take much urging to provoke an intense enthusiasm for further military action to advance realization realization i tion of other Italians aims Mussolini impatiently waits upon Austria becoming fascist cut to the Italian pattern of and not the an Prince Star- Star hemberg a storybook character playboy soldier soldier soldier sol sol- sol sol- dier of fortune almost chummy with il II duce seven years ago received Mussolini's 1 command to set up fascism A reactionary nationalist-reactionary in command of the vice chancellor chancel chancel- lor br until last Thursday with a mother powerful power power- ful jul in her own right in Austria's politics Mussolini Mussolini Mus Mus- olin looked for speed and didn't didn get it After it was all over he was in no hurry to o give the prince an audience in Rome When the two I meet though the dashing young man may be bein bein bein in for a scolding scolding and and may get new orders Though Dr has been as mu much h hunder under the thumb of the ambitious modern Caesar as has the thought th that t the bloodless coup that chucked the prince out of tile the government was staged with the knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge and consent of Mussolini 1 must fade as the chancellors chancellor's monarchist leanings are weighed The government only last year removed the last legal obstacle to the return return return re re- re- re turn of the to the thc Austrian throne European observers have long agreed that Prince Otto was being kept on ice to be clapped in into OI th the palace again if union with Germany should appear imminent Dr government has been able to io forestall an election or Austria Austria Austria Aus Aus- tria 80 per cent favoring and its people of German stock would go nazi over- over night That would destroy a basic aim of Mus- Mus 1 to to have Austria maintain its independence f dence and remain a buffer state between Italy 0 J and Germany Restoration n of the monarchy of course wo would m make e this this s secure secure- secure secure-Jt cur t ut i Mussolini could n to a sovereign He would have no no nc fear however that Otto would ever be pro pro pro- He has spoken with the utmost contempt contempt contempt con- con tempt for Hitler and pronounced the German aim ann to Austria to rest in the purpose of ot subjugating the Austrian people Since the partition of the Hungarian Austro-Hungarian empire union of Germany and Austria has from the beginning seemed inevitable Austrians preponderantly preponderantly preponderantly pre pre- want it It would be a question how long a monarch could prevent it thrones being the flimsy things thing they are these days It also is a big ig question how long an Italian con trolled dictatorship will vill be able to prevent it The ITh quick shift in Austria is not complete A cabinet change anywhere else on the continent continent conti- conti nent flent may be e set down as routine whenever one occurs but occurs but in Austria consequences are always unpredictable