The New York herald., 1921-01-30

Exactly in the same way the industrial
plants of Vienna have lost their value. for
they are deprived of the necessary raw ma
terials, which came from regions now con-
stituting a portion of one of the so-called
Succession States. All OF these States, more
over. are Withholding these raw materials to
favor their own Industrial plants and shut
ting out Viennese productions by tarin
walls In the past Vienna has been favored
by every sort of law, which Disseminated
against Prague and all other provincial
cities and fostered and favored viennese in
dustrial plants. But now the various pro-
vincial cities become parts of new States and.
more advantageously situated with respect
Of raw materials. are reversing the process.
The Great City. Impotent,
Drags Down Rest of Austria
The result has been the development Of
the condition now existing in Austria. Aside
from Vienna it is probably true that the
Austrian fragment could persist. It's agri-
cultural lands are fertile, it's population
could feed itself and measurably meet its
economic needs. But saddled with Vienna,
for whose vast populpation there is no re-
source, Austria has steadily sunk and its
population, particularly the population Of
Vienna, lives to-day only the charity of
the world, and in spite of this charity. under
conditions which almost pass the power Of
description. The truth is that two-thirds Of
this great population in the former Haps-
burg capital must emigrate or perish and
that it cannot now emigrate, lacking all
means for meeting the expenses of such en-
forced migration.
Here, then. are the elements in the Aus,
trian problem Now what are the possible
solutions? They are three in number-first
union with the German Republic; second,
union with Hungary; third association with
both Hungary and Czecho- -Slovakia in some
form of Danubian confederation which shall
at least have a common tariff frontier IL no
real political unity. Aside from these three
solutions there is only the prospect of the
rapid decline of Vienna, in part sustained
by the charity of the world, which cannot
continue at its present volume This decline,
moreover, promises the appearance of other
problems, the not impossible arrival of
anarchy and of Bolshevism, the development
of new sore spot in the middle of Europe.
Union with Germany. however, the sim
plest solution on the merely theoretical side,
is prevented by certain political circum-
stances. 1t was specifically forbidden in the
Treaty of st. Germain, which regulated the
Austrian situation. at the instance of France,
because the French for obvious reasons
opposed the addition Of more than 100000
OF people to the population OF Germany, since
the German population, which, even after the
losses of the war; exceeds that Of France by
so per cent. (60OOO,0 900 to 10000, ,000), and
will not impossiby be twice as great in less
than a half century. Such a disproportion
would clearly menace French security, par
ticularly in view Of the present German atti-
tude toward France
Aside from the question of Austria itself
such a union would doom Czecho-S -Slovakia,
which includes a larger German speaking
minority 3500.000 in 10000 since it