AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT

Evening Star, Issue 21708, 1 May 1934, Page 9

AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT

NEW CONSTITUTION APPROVED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. VIENNA, April 30. (Received May 1, at 10 a.m.) Parliament unanimously approved of the new Constitution, opponents withdrawing before voting. NEW CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS ALL CITIZENS EQUAL. VIENNA, April 30. (Received May 1, at noon.) The national colours will be red, white, and red, as before, and the coat of arms will bo the pre-republican double-beaded eagle, displacing the single-headed eagle, with hammer and sickle, according to the new constitutional law, additional clauses of which lay down the rights of religious communities, also guarantee the rights of citizens subject to reservations in the interests of law, order, and morality, and the protection of the young, which will bo the subject of special legislation. Another article declares that all citizens are equal before the law, privileges of birth, estate, and class being excluded. Women have the same rights and obligations us men. Unless specially 7 decreed otherwise tho Federal Diet .will consist of twenty 7 members of the State Council, ten of the Council of Intellect, twenty 7 of the Economic Council, and nine of tho Provincial Council. The Diet will report on all Bills, while the Council of Intellect and the Economic Council will report respectively 7 on Bills dealing with cultural and economic matters. [A message received on April 28 stated; “ The Austrian Parliament, which has not met for nearly 7 fourteen months, will reassemble on Monday for one day 7 in order to sanction tho new corporative Constitution. It will then dissolve ]