HITLER'S EUROPE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 172, 23 July 1941, Page 11

HITLER'S EUROPE

UNITED STATES ARCHDUKE OTTO'S COMMENT ' NEW YORK. June 4. The report published that Adolf Hitler is planning to proclaim a German-dominated "United States of Europe" in an effort to end the war got partial substantiation from Switzerland. Count Ferdinand Czernin. head of the anti-Nazi Austrian Action, declared here that he had received similar information from "sources in Switzerland that have proved reliable in the past." The original report came to Archduke Otto of Hapsburg. Pretender to the throne of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, from Lisbon. Portugal and Switzerland are the only listening posts remaining unguarded in Europe. Count Czernin is a son of a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He stated he had received his information as an individual rather than as head of Austrian Action, a movement devoted to freeing Austria from German rule. The information received by Archduke Otto was disclosed bv Dr. Martin Fuchs, for many years chief of the Press Department of the Austrian Government, later Foreign Secretary of the Austrian National Committee in Paris and now one of the directors of Austrian Action. Archduke Otto said to-dav he regretted the disclosure of the information as he did not feel "any such plans by Adolf Hitler could come to fruition. Europe is too solidly against him to accept such a scheme." — "Auckland Star" and N.A.N.A.