AUSTRIA’S ONLY HOPE
UNION WITH GERMANY A VERY SERIOUS PLIGHT THROTTLED BY PROHIBITIVE DUTIES INFLUENCES OF THE VATICAN By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 6, 10.55 p.m. LONDON, April 5. The special correspondent at Vienna of the ‘‘Daily Express” states: “The N atican influences are a powerful factor in Central Europe. They have abandoned formerly cherished plans for the ultimate restoration of the Hapsburghs in Austria and Prince Rupprecht in Bavaria. 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 Catholics political dominance in Germany.
“Austria is at present in a very serious plight, with 300,000 dole drawing unemployed out of a total of 6,000,000. Austria is being throttled by Czechoslovakia’s, Poland’s, and Jugo-Slavia’s fantastic prohibitive duties. Ninety per cent of Austrians regard union with Germany as the only hope of salvation from strangulation, and ruin.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19546, 7 April 1926, Page 7
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172AUSTRIA’S ONLY HOPE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19546, 7 April 1926, Page 7
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