Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-21
BY THE MARauIsE DE FeNTENoY

All the generous and kindly efforts
of the powers of the entente indi-
vidually and through the league Of
nations to put Austria on her feet
once more by means of official and
unofficial loans and by the extension
or remission of the sums due by her
under the head of reparations for her
ruthless destruction of private prop
erty and devastation of territories Of
the allies during the earlier stages
of the great war are certain to be
discouraged and possibly even sus-
pended BY the frightfully injudicious
declaration made by Prof. Hartmann
at Frankfort on Main last Friday
speaking in his capacity as Austrian
ambassador at Berlin. to the effect
that his countrymen were hard and
fast in their yearning for union with
Germany and for the coordination
Of Prussia, the middle states of Ger
many and Austria into one united
European nation. This utterance was
made on the occasion of the celebra-
tion of the seventy fifth anniversary
of the meeting of the frst German
parliament at Frankfort and In the
presence of President Ebert, the chief
ma gistrate of the Prussian republic,
of the president of the reichstag and
of the leading authorities of the
southern states of Germany.
trian will never learn. 1t was their
alliance with Germany which drove
them into the great war which cul-
minated in the disruption OF their
ancient empire and in their reduction
to the rank of fifth class nation. and
in the loss of the greater part of
their territory. when the late En-
peror Charles, shortly after his ac-
cession to the throne at Vienna. real
ICED the hopelessness of the great
war. at any rate as far as Austria
was concerned. and sought to nego.
tiate a separate peace with the pow
ers of the entente, which would have
saved her from Acknowledgement, it
was Berlin who forced her to remain
in the union of the central powers, and
actually threatened to invade her ter
ritory, at the same time appealing TO
the German population of Austria to
rise against the government at Vienna
il it continued to pursue its nesoti-
atoms with France and Great Britain
for a separate peace.
Indeed, Austrias alliance with Ger.
many has been the entire cause OF her
downfall and ruin. and both during
the war and Immediately subsequent
thereto the Austrians were accus.
toned to heap upon Berlin all their
curses for the disasters by which they
had been overtaken.
When economic and political chaos
appeared imminent at Vienna and the
government there. absolutely insol-
its task and the nation seemed to be
on the eve Of extinction as an indie.
peudent and sovereign state, the en-
tente powers resolved to extend 4
helping hand, moved thereto not
alone by PITY but also ya S sn ses CON r.
and absorb Austria. This was some,
thing which the allies wished at all
costs to prevent. Indeed, IL my
memory serves ME Alright. special pro.
vision was made by the Paris peace con-
ference of 1919 against any eventual
union between Germany and Austria.
and both countries were placed under
the strfctest kind of obligations to
abstain therefrom.
Yet, now we find the arnb assadof
of Austria, speaking in the name OF
his government, proclaiming the
earnest longing of his government
and of his people to become prov.
ince of Germany, and the president
of the German republic, with the lead
and vigorously applauding these re-
early realisation. The union be-
tween Germany and Austria, that Is
TO say, the absorption OF the latter Dy
the former would be the climax of the
absurdties resulting from the itterr1a-
tioflal congress OF peace of 1919 in
Paris and Versailles.
q X
AS many of my readers know, there
are two Lords Curzon. There Is the
Marquis OF Cursor, the former vice.
roy of India, now secretary OF state
~ foreign affairs and possessed of
international fame ~ 4 matterful