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Show AUSTRIA EAGER TO KEEP PEACE Feverishly Anxious to Main-: tain Good Relations With the United States. BKRN'E, March 29, via Paris. March 30. A neutral diplomat who arrived here from Vienna today asserts that; Austria is almost feverishly anxious to I retain good relations with the I'nited Stal'-s. but is evn more desirous and determined to support Germany. Th continuance of friendly relations between be-tween Washington and Vienna de-' pend.-. almost entirely, he believes, on the outcome of th crisis between Germany Ger-many and the Unlt ! St ea According to the diplomat, if America Amer-ica and Germany go to war Austria will follow and lead of hr ally but If p. iice is preserved Vienna hopes to avoid a break with th I mud Siates. The economic situation in Austria is described by the traveler as very bad and getting teadily worse, although,! perhaps, not worse than that in Germany. |