Show ica ECONOMIC highlights today central europe Is the madhouse ot of tho the world great powers fro ere literally sitting on powder kegs and only a spark is needed to produce tho the greatest since 1914 tho the last world war started aheu a half insane anarchist murdered an grand duke in a have ever headd hea aty ti ty few ew americans to prepare the th 0 c it tokes yelus i ao agre for major barsto build up t tie te i the at 0 tu urs 19 the them once tiie ti ar that underlie e Is 19 s sat however ony minutes wo required d to get the play going aind the of 0 chani dollfuss Doll lusa Aus uve toot fot t il I 1 iron isan inan is an involved crook i ed close to untraceable etain chain of e ants its that KO go back bach to the postwar post war peace pacts modern fo dern austria Is 19 a head without a body in the days boi 1914 the old empire embrace d square miles ot of territory I 1 harboring a population ot of 50 IjO OOOO after the war the map ot of europe was remade to tho the order ot of tile the victorious countries and when the tha operation was finished austria had been reduced to people with a little over 00 square miles ot of territory much of 0 this land is worthless from the standpoint of 0 production and neighboring countries erected high tariff Larri barriers ers to prevent the small amount of export austria could have had only loans have kept her from bankruptcy during the past fifteen years As a result her people are despairing frightened wondering she Is thus always facing potential revolution it is that fact that hitler Is seeking to take advantage vantage Ld or 02 germany many too was by the aarand the nazi brearn is 0 to o restore tho the territorial empire that once made potsdam the most important capital of 0 curare hitler believes that the way to do that is not by invasion france ftp ity ly and perhaps england with great arm les lea and navies would crush him as eoon coon as lie he started it if he tried that cont rp but by establishing nazi governments in other central powers ers ol of which austria is one dollfuss was the great defender of aus austrian cea a christian soc nilst aalst he although preme dictator hated th nazis and his al was essential to nazi tile tho nazi it to lu take over tile tho austrian government govern mei men darne n it il was waa tailed balled italy at ice moved troops troop to tho ahr billau xua us trian she with france is pledged to maintain austrian independence pen dence there Is no altruism in this it simply depre represent anti self pro lection tec tion she knows well that it if the hitler dream la is ac achieved hIlved germany will once more become at great ludu industrial du and military power and that it will be only oily a matter of time lime before she again tries to conquer europe most desperate ef cf austrian problems now is civil war bazl Nazi sentiment Is 13 strong among the austrian people and the government will bluth lesa legs in seeking to subdue it it tho new chancellor Is dr kurt an ardent antl E nazi when dollfuss Doll tusi died it looked as if 1 tho lid had bad been taken from the central european powder keg at last and that the spark was about to be applied then the lid was clamped down again but it sits i loosely in its position the dynamite Is still there and the r use reay ily tor for the match industrial news review |