AUSTRIAN PACT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 14 July 1936, Page 7

AUSTRIAN PACT

WHITEHALL SCEPTICAL. INDEPENDENT FOREIGN POLICY. DR SCHUSCHNIGG’S ASSURANCE. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 14, 8.55 a.m. LONDON, July 13. The diplomatic correspondent of the Morning Post says that considerable scepticism is felt in Whitehall concerning tlio permanence of the AustioGerman agreement, which is considered to bo a truce rather than a genuine agreement. Few imagine that the agitation for an Anschluss will not be iesumed as soon as it suits Germany. This fear is shared in laris. I here the Press forecasts that Austria will soon be at the mercy of the Beicli. Mr G Ward Price, on behalf ot the Daily Mail, had a special interview with Dr Kurt Schuschnigg (Chancelloi of Austria) who hoped that Britain would approve of the arrangement, because it removed the danger of German interference in Austrian politics. “The question of the restoration or the Hapsburgs is not affected. It is one of the matters that Germany pi omised not to interfere in, nevertheless the opposition of other countries is so strong that it is at present inopportune to consider it,” the Chancelloi stated. “We shall begin immediately negotiations for trade agreements with Germany. We intend remaining in the League and our foreign policy will remain independent of Germany. HITLER’S POLICY.

Herr Yon Papcn (German Minister at Vienna) told Mr Ward Frice: Herr Hitler does not think much ot collective security. He has just given the world further proof that bilateral treaties ape the most efficient method ot bi lnging disputes to an honest and peaceful end Mr Ward Price also interviewed Austrian Nazi leaders and found bitterness at what they consider to be a betrayal. Tliev declare that Hitler s and Seliuselinigg’s hands met across the corpses of the martyrs of the xNazi ideal.