AUSTRIAN POLICY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 244, 12 September 1933, Page 7

AUSTRIAN POLICY

A CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP. TERMINATION QF MARXISM. THE CHANCELLOR’S DECLARATION. (United Press Association—By Electric . Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 12, 12 noon. VIENNA, Sept. 11. The Chancellor, Dr Dolfuss, declaring Ins policy to a patriotic audience of 70j000, announced the termination of . the era of Marxism and capitalism in Austria in favour of authoritative leadership on a Christian and guild basis. He praised Prince Starhemberg and Major Fey arid hinted at a reconciliation with Germany, which lie described as Austria’s elder brother. He refrained from identifying himself with any existing Cabinet group.

DEATH TO DEMOCRACY,

ANTI-SEMITIC STATE,

FASCIST ORGANISATION

LONDON, Sept. 10. The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says it is strongly rumoured in political circles that Dr. Dolfuss, the Austrian Chancellor, will to-morrow proclaim an Austrian Fascist State on Italian lines. Austria will thus become anti-Semitic, but without the brutality of Hitler’s Germany. The new regime will certainly be ultra-Catholic, and the Vatican is believed to approve whole-heartedly of the solution.

The Heimwher, under Prince Starhemberg, who has just returned from Rome, is straining every nerve to secure this result, and hopes that an announcement will he made at a Ileimwelir meeting to-morrow, when 40,000 will be present, but it is not certain whether 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 the Black or the Brown Fascists,

NAZI RELATIONSHIP,

TERMS FOR SETTLEMENT.

MUNICH, Sept. 10. Herr Habicht broadcast the following terms for a peaceful Nazi settlement of Austria:

Re-establishment of the liberties of the Nazi political party; the abolition of hostile measures; representation in a temporary Cabinet proportionate to its strength; an early election and the formation of a Government in accordance with the result of it.

Herr Ilabiclrt added that, despite the filling of Austrian prisons to overflowing, the dismissal of tens of thousands of Nazi sympathisers from the army, civil service, and police, and the brutal deprivation of families of their means of existence, the Nazi movement had spread like an avalanche throughout Austria and its regime was unconquerable.