AUSTRIAN FASCIST STATE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 355, 12 September 1933, Page 5

AUSTRIAN FASCIST STATE

Expected Proclamation ON ITALIAN LINES Press Association --Ccnyrmht. London, Sept. 10. It is strongly rumoured in political circles that Dr. Dolfuss will to-morrow proclaim an Austrian Fascist state on Italian lines, says the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Austria will thus

become anti-Semitic but without the bru-

tality of Hitler’s Germany. “The new regime will certainly be ultra-Gatholic, and the Vatican is credibly believed to approve whole-heartedly of the solution,” the correspondent adds. “The Heimwehr under Prince Starhomberg, who has just returned from Rome, is straining every nerve to secure this result, and hopes the announcement will be made at a Heimwehr meeting tomorrow, when 40,000 will be present, but it is not certain that 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 Black or Brown Fascists.” Herr Habicht has broadcast the following terms for a peaceful Nazi settlement in Austria: Re-establishment of the liberties of the Nazi political party, abolition of hostile measures, representation in a temporary Cabinet proportionate to its strength, an early election and the formation of a Government according to the result of the election.

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