POSSIBLE FASCIST STATE

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 12 September 1933, Page 5

POSSIBLE FASCIST STATE

PROBABLE AUSTRIAN MOVE PROCLAMATION EXPECTED. VATICAN APPROVAL BELIEVED. DOLFUSS VERDICT AWAITED. .United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph c*»Dyright.) LONDON, Sept. 10. It is strongly rumoured iu political circles that Dr.' Dolfuss will to-morrow proclaim an Austrian Fascist state on Italian lines, says the Vienna correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” Austria will thus become anti-Semitic, but without the brutality of Hitler’s Germany. . “The new regime will certainly he ultra-Catholic, and the Vatican is credibly believed to approve wholeheartedly of the solution,” the correspondent- adds. “The Heimwehr under Prince Starhemberg, who has just returned from Rome, is straining every nerve to secure this result, and hopes the announcement will be made at a Heimwehr meeting to-morrow, _ when 40,000 will he present, but it is not certain that Dr. Dolfuss has yet taken the final decision. “The Social Democrats will probably strike, but this will soon be suppressed. In any event Austria’s democracy is doomed to die at the hands of either Black or Brown Fascists.” Herr Habiclit lias broadcast the following terms for'a peaceful Nazi settlement in Austria: Re-establishment of the liberties of tbe Nazi political party, abolition of hostile measures, representation in a temporary Cabinet proportionate to its strength, an early election and the formation of a Government according to the result of the election. Herr Habicht added that despite the filling of Austrian' orisons to overflowing, despite tbe dismissal of tens of thousands of Nazi sympathisers from 1 tbe army and civil service and police, and despite brutal deprivation of families of their means of existence,

the Nazi movement had spread like an, avalanche thi’oughout Austria and its regime was unconquerable.