AUSTRIA & GERMANY

Evening Post, Issue 11, 13 July 1936, Page 9

AUSTRIA & GERMANY

AGREEMENT ANNOUNCED

SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST

"CONTRIBUTION TO EUROPEAN PEACE"

(Unltcd Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.)

LONDON, July 11. Dr. Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, broadcasting at Berlin at 9 p.m., and Dr. Schuschnigg, Chancellor of Austria, broadcasting simullaneously at Vienna, announced an AustroGerman agreement of which the official text is as. follows:— "In the conviction that they are contributing to developing European peace as a whole, and" in the faith that they are thus serving the manifold mutual interests of two German nations, the Governments of Austria and Germany have decided to render relations again normal and friendly." With this motive it is stated:— "1. In accordance with the statements of the Fuhrer on May 21, 1935, Germany recognises the full sovereignty of the federal States of Austria. / "2. Each Government considers the inner political developments existing in the other country, including Austrian Nazism, as the internal affair of the other country in which they will not interfere directly or indirectly. "3. Austria will maintain its policy in general, and in particular towards Germany, always on the fundamental idea that Austria recognises herself as a German Stale. Thus the Rome protocols of 1934 and their annexes of 1936, as well as the position of Austria regarding Italy and Hungary as partners in the protocols, will, not be disturbed. Seeing that the lessening tension which both desire can only be assured if certain preliminary conditions are taken into consideration, both Austria and Germany will create by a series of individual measures a situation to that end." -