Evening Post. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1933. A DESPERATE STRUGGLE

Germany's policy as peace "with everybody and especially with all her neighbours, as her ' Chancelk>r informed a relieved and astonished world a month ago. . Only three or four days previously he had made a singular display of his pacific intentions towards the neighbour with, whom, since the withdrawal of' the French forces from the Ruhr, Germany's relations have been the most perilous of aIL .As a Danzig message reported on May 12, three lorn-loads of German police and two detachments of Nazi •Storm Troops, arriving in caTg and on c_ycles, entered Dknzig and raided 'th« trades union headquarters. They tore down the Socialist flag and haiftted the Swastika. The police spread a cowlon rotraid the area and dispersed the eroTvd with truneheonß. Tins action of Germany's police and Storm Troops -was as illegal in the Free City of Danzig as it -would have been an Warsaw or Wellington, and as, Poland has extensive interests and rights in the city *nd is -actually allowed to have a small detachment of troops stationed there, the procedure was not less,provocative and dangerous than it was lawless and insolent. A subsequent invasion by the Nazis was so successful that almost all the houses of Danzig displayed Swastika flags on 'election day, nobody dared to display any others, and the Nazis gained control of the Volkstag. From the beginning the administration «f the Free City has teen cursed by perpetual feuds between Germans and Poles in which, -on-the whole, the Germans have been the less unreasonable. That the balance will now he reversed and the danger of one of the storm centres of Europe seriously increased is a probable 'inference from the spirit of the new regime as reported today. At "the opening of the new Diet, "Deutschland TJber Alles" -was sung at the request 'of the Nazi President fot the first time since the establishment of Danzig as a free city. Nazi -mem- < beTS arrived in uniform. The city was floodlit In celebration of the occasion,, and a torchlight -oroeession waa held. ' The report comes from Warsaw and -is without comment. They must be thinking a good deal about the matter in Warsaw, though thfiy may not be saying much. $he restraint which the Poles have shtrwn since in the face of the almost intolerable provocation' of the last three or four months as indeed one ■of the few changes for the better in _a perilous position. But theie is another European capital where Nazi insolence has lately rfsen the subject not, only of hard thinking but of downright - adti/bn. The troubles •' 'bf . Austria sl^ow _that Germany's peace-loving diciator is as serious a menace to her.firiends and kinsmen as he is to her natural enemies. The bulk of the population of Austria are German., and the great Empire from -whijbh her territory was carved had beten for about fifty years, in peace iand in.war, Germany's most powerful ally. Herr Hitler, who of course, shares to the full the Pan-Germain aspirations which his party has.inherited from Imperial Prussia, catjnot do without Austria, but it nrast/.be on his own terms. Addressing, '(&■ National Congress of Nazi leadte at Munich on April 22, herald:.-, '-. The revolution -ttftfl only be complete when the entire 13^nnan world is inwardly and outwardly formed anow. Inwardly Austria/must turn- Nazi, and outwardly she wall become a part of Germany. . . . This fate hasfbeen proclaimed for Austria.with tbjle utmost candour by the Nazi Press/of Germany and even by several of r/lerr Hitler's Ministers. On the day following his speech the Press -was re/joicihg over the, hews from Austria. ,• •■ . ''_ tlrat the St^rian .Hcimatschutz had acknowledged Herr'Hitler as its leader, had -formed.' an alliance with ', the Austrian Ibrianch of the Nazis, undertalken to -exfchange staff representatives foj 'the ■efft-ordination of "military policy, s'aai/.d super-imposed the swastika as its stf^el-helmet symbol. TJiis wai actually described by the Hitler H'ress as "the beginning of the end'of the Dqllfiiss regime" and as procif that "the Pan^German idea is on ifee march." 'Further evidence that S&is idea was on the march was provided when six of Hitler's stalwarts* including three Minister's, arravted at Vienna for the nominal piumose of taking part in a Nazi celebraifton of the 250 th anniversary of the; city's deliverance from the Turks. As Dr. Dollfuss was then engaged in a "hard struggle with his own Nazis on the one side, and with the Socialists on the other, it' wjasTobvi/ously a very convenient occasion for other Nazi purposes also, and a team which included Dr. Frank, who Had previously in a broadcast speech predicted the forcible occupation of Austria1 by Bavarian Nazis, might be expected to take full advantage of it. i But what was convenient for the Nazi emissaries was for the same

reason highly inconvenient for Dr. Dollfuss, and not being made of putty, as most of Heir Hitler's German opponents appear to have been, he decided to interfere. As Dr. Frank and his colleagues landed from their aeroplane drey'were informed by die Chief of the Vienna Police that their visit was "not very desirable, 1' and that lie would like to be "informed of their'exact programme. They took this to miean that they had better go, and jhey Went. A protest was at once lodged by the German Minister, in Vienna, against the "inhospitable reception" of Dr. Frank and the two other Ministers, but as they had not «even had the courtesy to give the Austrian Government notice of their conning, Dr. Dollfuss was able to reply that [it was merely a private matter, and that the action taken was only against the Ministers personally,' From that | day to this the Austrian Chancellor ! has stood manfully to his <g«ns, and |he seems to be still as full of fight jas ever. The arrest of hundreds of ', Nazis, the suppression <?£ all . but 1 one of their newspapers, anil the pro- ! posed confiscation of their property 1 show that he knows how to fight them with their own weapons. But the fact that the whole of Austria's armed forces except those that 'are guarding the.frontier -or patrolling , the streets' of Vienna with machineguns are confined to barracks with orders to stand to, shows how desperate the struggle is.