Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-21
Deserted by Hungary, Bohe-
mia and JUgO-SIavia and
UnWeIC0med in Danube Ter
ritOry, Prestige Is Gone,
ALLIANCE WITH HUNS
BELIEVED IMPERATIVE
What Is Left of Once Great
Monarchy Cannot Stand by
ITSELF Says Foreign Minis
ter to Correspondent,
BY Arno Dosch- tleurot.
(Staff Correspondent of the Aibuqucr-
que journal and New York worldly {.
Copyright 1919, by the Press Publish
(The New York WORLDLY
Especial Cable Dispatch.)

Especial Cable Dispatch.)
Vienna, Feb. 20.-Austria is rush.
ing into a union with Germany hard
ly giving itself time to think whether
it really wants 10. 1t regards itself as
deserted by Bohemia and Jugo-Slavia.
and Hungary also undoubtedly has
turned its back, | have only been in
Vienna four days, having come to get
opinions from leaders, as time would
be too short to study profoundly the
situation myself; but in introducing
the following interview with DR.. Otto
Fauer, foreign minister, who will have
the details of the union in his hands,
! will say q few obvious things.
Opinion. at least momentarily,
seems almost unanimous for union.
No party here dares TO speak openly
against it and all parties with hope
Of any success in Sundays constitu-
ticnal convention elections are for
the union. The people seem TO
friendliness Of the Czecho-Slo-
vaks and Jugo- -Slavs, but political
leaders have a deeper thought. AS the
difference between Berlin and Vienna
is almost as real as between Berlin
here think Austria is rushing into an
alliance she may later regret, but
right now, the people, feeling them
selves isolated are for the union as
the only way out. DR.. Bauer, who is
realty the leader OF political thought
among the socialists in power, ia,
aware the entente eyes are watching
Austrta's actions, and his interview
is larg ~ in explanation Of why Aus
tria intends to Join Germany lie said:
with the breaking of the Austro-
Hungarian empire, only two solutions
are open for Austria, either a Danube
federation or a union with Germany
Alone, Austria is n poor mountain
state, dependent upon the outside
world for support and not rich
enough to pay for 1t.
SlavS Are Hostile.
Whatever the advantages or diSad-
vantages in a Danube federation, it
no longer is possible, and through no
fnult of ours. other members of the
old empire have cast us off. The Slav
peoples to the north and south have
drawn off by themselves and made
the demarcation line between Ger
mans and Slav so distinct that we
we could not ignore 1t if we wished.
They have been emphasizing their
will to be apart from us unmistaka-
bly,. In Marburg thsy used machine
guns on us.
There are 100, 900 workess in VII
emma. Austria is not highly enough
developed to continue as a Swt2er-
land. We need to be in federation.
otherwise hundreds of thousands of
workers would be obliged to emigrate
nd At,g Il gt,, Inc
cance with poor, half-starved popu-
lation. Her union with Germany or
Danube federation is necessary.
II believe Italy, England and Amer
lea are comparatively indifferent to
which course we take, but | know
France favors the Danube federation.
and that is now impossible, The Slav
states have aroused the bitterest feel
ngS among the German Austrians by
acs of the past few weeks which have
left us nothing to do but join with
Germany,
Slays Openly Hostile.
'The ideas Of President Wilson and
Lloyd George regarding self determi-
nation of peoples favor the union.
The peoples of Austria and Bohemia
have been in a state of constant un-
rest, That has been gradually con-
vIncing the Austrian people they are
I not wanted in the Danube federation,
and now the Czecho-Slovak and Jugo-
Siav governments, in stamping their
portion of old currency with individ
ual stamps, have put US in financial
position 50 serious we are forced to
turn as quickly as possible to the
nearest solution, which is a union
with Germany"
IF the entente should rescue Aus
tria from a financial crisis by big
loan, would that check the tendency
10 rush into German alliance| |
asked.
Such loan" he repeated, would
carry us over making possible the
purchase Of food and raw materials
abroad to get the wheels of our fac
tories turning and to reduce the great
social danger,
Must Cedc Racial Rights.
France wanted a Danube fedora
ton. and we were ready to enter one
if possible and worked Loyalty TO that
end; hut that is past hope We be-
liove that France, as well rs England
! and America, will see now that a
durable peace in the territory of the
old Austro- Hungarian empire alone
can be assured when the Germans
here are given the same rights as 9TH
| er peoples formerly IN the empire who
| already have planned their future"
| | asked Or. Bauer whether Austria
| was not unduly hurried into the union
! and he replied:
! THE union cannot be made so
! quickly as you seem to think. II will
| take months of negotiations. with
| such a mass of financial and industrial
questions to settle. The negotiations
/ win uRdoutte ~ hegin soon. but the
I union won't come immediately. The
! Austrian national assembly must yet
| discuss it backward and forward
| 'It seems to me the Austrians are
| very different from the Germans, par
! ticuiarly the Prussians. Is there real