FUTURE OF EUROPE
GREAT DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY j AUSTRIA’S INDEPENDENCE | CLAIMS. I ! HAPSBURG RESTORATION I POSTPONED. j [“The Times” Cahle.l (Received 10.45 p.m.) I LONDON, February 2. ( The Paris correspondent of “The | Times” says the present period of great | diplomatic activity is likely to last sev- | eral days. Monarchs and statesmen of Central and Eastern Europe are conferring with French statesmen. It is expected that the conferences will have an important bearing on the future of Europe. The French and Rumanian representatives have examined the commercial and financial relations between the two countries, and King Carol gave emphatic assurances of his determination to work in the closest collaboration with France.
In some quarters it is believed that King Carol desires to make Russia an additional guarantor of Austria’s independence in order to offset the weakening of Italy’s military strength as the result of the war in Abyssinia, but France is not to agree to a proposal which would give Germany reason for further talk of encirclement.
Prince Starhemberg, Austrian ViceChancellor, is expected to begin conversations tomorrow, which will be especially concerned with Austria’s independence. In this connection French newspapers call attention to the suggested restoration of the Hapsburgs. However, the opinion is unanimous that it would provide dangerous friction, which view Prince Starhemberg sharfes.
The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says the restoration of the Hapsburgs has been postponed indefinitely. owing to the opposition of the Little Entente States.
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Northern Advocate, 4 February 1936, Page 3
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