NEW AGREEMENT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 July 1936, Page 7

NEW AGREEMENT

GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. SIMULTANEOUS DECLARATION. FRIENDLY RELATIONS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, July 11. Dr. Goebbels (Nazi Minister of Propaganda), broadcasting at (Beilin at 9 p.m., and Dr. Scliuschnigg (Chancellor of Austria), broadcasting simultaneously at Vienna, announced an Austro-German 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 arc 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 Fulirer 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 toward Germany, always on the fundamental idea that Austria recognises herself as a German State. Thus the Romo 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 he disturbed. Seeing that tlie lessening tension both desire can only he assured if certain preliminary conditions are taken into consideration, both Austria and Germany will create l\y a senes of individual measures that situation.