TRIUMPH FOR DUCE

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

TRIUMPH FOR DUCE

A DANGER GONE

HERR HITLER'S OBJECTS

(Received July 13, 11.50 a.m.)

LONDON, July 12.

The "Observer's" Rome corerspondent, attributing the agreement to Signor Mussolini's diplomacy, says that the Duce has achieved an important triumph. The inclusion of the Rome protocols rids Italy of danger on the Brenner Pass frontier,- ■ which has dominated Italian life since. the war, and also has eliminated the possibility of an anqhluss, which would be a casus belli to Italy.

According to a Vienna message, reports from Rome state that Herr Hitler has guaranteed not to interfere with Austria, as the price' of Italian support against the Locarno Powers.

It is stated in official circles at Vienna that Signor Mussolini had nothing to do with, the agreement, which was concluded between Di\ Schuschnigg and Dr. yon Papen alone, and was due to Herr Hitler's desire to conciliate Britain and leave Germany free Jo deal«with problems elsewhere in Europe, including Danzig. The AustroGerman agreement may involve the reconstruction of the Austrian Cabinet, and certainly will mean an amnesty for imprisoned Nazis. REST FOR UNEASY SLEEPERS. The "Berliner Tageblatt" expresses the hope that anxious souls who regarded Austria as the powder barrel of Europe will now be able to sleep. "Let us regard the agreement as the first sign that Europe has been conquered by a real desire for peace," it states. The "Sunday Times" welcomes the Austro-German agreement and states that it is not disposed to look behind and around in order to find hidden sinister motives. "We ought to welcome any and every agreement turning enemies into friends." The "Sunday Chronicle" describes events as moving swiftly and dramatically to the formation of a dictators' front in Europe, with a new formidable triple alliance—ltaly, Austria, and Germany. At Berlin a German spokesman, summarising the results of the agreement, expressed the opinion that newspapers' of each country would be readmitted to the other. Austria would remit the 1000 marks tax, on visiting Germans, ah amnesty for^political prisoners'would be arranged, and each nation would be permitted to show its national emblems within the borders of the other. He added that the' agreement was not made in response to the British questionnaire, but was a confirmation of Germany's peaceful intentions. YON PAPEN'S EFFORTS. The Berlin correspondent of "The Times," writing before the agreement was announced, said it was well known that Dr. yon Papen, German Ambassador, had been trying for a long time to reach an arrangement with Dr. Schuschnigg for improving Austro-German economic relations, but it seemed that the purpose of this was merely to facilitate a German reply to the British questionnaire. If an Austro-German economic agreement was reached it was pointed out that; Germany could argue that there need be no anxiety over middle European pacts to secure Austrian independence as the two countries were capable of arranging matters between themselves.