CENTRAL EUROPE
VATICAN ACTIVE AUSTRO-GERMAN ALLIANCE AIMED AT HAPSBURG RESTORATION ABANDONED. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, April 6. The Daily Express special correspondent at Vienna states —“The Vatican influences a powerful factor in Central Europe. They have abandoned the formerly cherished plans for the ultimate restoration of the Hapsburgs in Austria and Prince Rupprecht in Bavaria, and instead the Vatican is supporting the union of Austria with Germany. This would add 4,000,000 Roman Catholic Austrians to Germany, making the Roman Catholic population of Germany 45 per cent., which is believed to be sufficient, with the aid of one other party, to give the Catholics political dominance in Germany. Austria is at present in a serious plight with 300,000 dole-draw»ng unemployed out of a total of 6,000,000. Austria is being throttled by Czecho-Slovakia’s, Poland’s and Jugoslavia’s fantastic prohibitive duties. Ninety per cent, of Austrians regard union with Germany as the only hope of salvation from strangulation and ruin.”—A. & N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 19837, 7 April 1926, Page 5
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