The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-19
FRENCH PROPAGANDA ABOUT A GER
MAN-AUSTRIAN ALIGNMENT

and Asia which threatens again to enbro the work.
in another war; the official and seioffcial French
press is raising the of a Mitteleuropa to b
realized through an alliance between Germany and Aus
tra It is strongly suspected that this cry raised
order force Czechosovaka to abandon its hostile pol
icy of maintaining high tariff walls against Austria
is not at all improbable that behind the propaganda
the French publicsts, especially NJ Jules Sauerwen
foreign editor of the Paris Journal de Matin" is the
hand of Wall Street, whose Austrian investments arr
endangered because of tariff barriers maintained by Dor
dering states.
Real War Danger Not Touched.
In labored argument which leaves untouched the rea
threat of in Europe-the series of provocations
forgeres and murders against the Soviet Union,
panyng the desperate efforts to build bloc of reac
tionary nations against the workers and peasants gov
depicts the union between Germany
and Austria almost accomplished fact and draws
his lingo conclusions therefrom.
In following the arguments of this French journalistic
harot it we'll to keep in mind the fact that only
Gently he visitor in the United States and therefor
became than familiar with the mperialis policy
Wall Street.
In the nine years that Austria has enjoyed as ain
dependent nation, according to Sauerwen, she has
era times been saved by the League of Nations from
complete collapse and ruin the condition tina
she remain sovereign state and allow herself to be useC
buffer against the possible encroachments of Ger
many toward the Adrat Sea- but that in order to main
tain her independence she must impose upon herself fol
the future "a regime of restrictions and privatons
which country could be expected to endure if there
were any other way out.
There indications, NJ Sauerwein thinks, that Aus
tra would consider a union with Germany way out
far preferable to her precarous role of sham ndepend
ence but such union could only be achieved in the light
of day by the express permission of the League of Ma
TONS in conformity with the Treaty of ST. German
This the League would be unlikely to grant, particularly
in view of the rumpus raised by the allies in 1915 wher
the Provisional Assembly at Vienna voted for the unor
of Austria with Germany and the Germans had already
prepared seats at Weimar for the Austrian Deputies
The allies would not hear of such unon and declared
IL Iaote
Pretends to See Sly Conspiracy.
The only other way to effect union, then, according
the political sage of LIE Man would be by the subtle
and subteranean method of achieving de facto ncor
poration, without using that word and without commit
ting any official act that to say by erecting Austria
in every way if it province of the Reich" This
the willy Austrians have already begun to do con Feb
9Th Austria decreed the unfication of criminal egsla
ton. little later the assimilation of Ausrians
and Germans in matters of inheritance and guardianship
For several months the uniforms of the army have beer
identical in the two countries and the commission of the
entente has learned that the regulations and the
method of mobilization will be adopted by both
countries in of conflict In respect to Geographic
and telephone communication the two countries profit
from interior tariff Again, cable has been estab
Hshed between Vienna Passau and Nuremberg In 1926
the two countries accorded each other in commercial
latons the most favored nation treatment Thanks tt
arrangements concluded in 1924 1925 and 1926 the
toms union has been very close except for certain
rails such agricultural products and horses, which
Germany maintains very high duties in order to swing
her cause the Austrian peasants who in general
very favorable to Incorporation In each branch of pro
ducon there exist AustroG German cartels University
professors travel from country to another belong
the same union and maintain the pension funds
Dramatic authors writer's and musicians united ir
the enjoyment of the privileges in the central syndicate
in Berlin"
All these facts one is led to suppose are straws point
ing to the gradual absorption of Austria by Germany
whereby the latter stands to gain population Of
100000 Austrans advance of her territory within
100 kometers of the Adratc and to the borders of the
Balkan States.
Terrorizes Czechoslovakia With SpecuIations.
"The most troublesome phase of the situation" says
NJ Sauerwein is that if the big powers by chance are
finally brought to accept Incorporation there will there
after be no chance of stability realizing itself the
Continent Czechoslovakia completely locked in woulc
longer be able to live. Yugoslava would have
stance menaced by the bastons of Hungary thirstine
for revenge and playing the side of Germany Italy
would be confronted along the entire northern frontier
by neighbor powerful that it would have no other
choice than to wage to form close alliance with
large compensation in the Balkans He concludes finally
that incorporation war; and that remedy must
quickly be found if this calamity is to be averted
This is all very interesting speculation and it is prob
able that the barrage of smoke conceas at least small
tongue of flame.
Britain and America Behind Scenes
1t is equally interesting and the point to spec
ulate something that has far of foundation in
fact-that is the great rivalry of Britain and America
throughout the whole world. No one can discuss the
Oh economic ana poHtc2l forces Europe
without taking this conflict between the rival pe-
ralsms into consideration Capitalist political writers
of all shades careful to mention this dominant
factor Behind all the diplomacy, the manouvering of
statesmen, relentessy proceeds the great economic
struggle wherein the Wall Street imperiasts strive to
align on their side the nations of Europe.
Only last week the United States showed it's hand in
Austrian affairs by series of loans and COM
mercia treaties 1t concluded "fovored nation COM
mercia treaty with Austria floated S3OOO0OOO loan
to Germany based upon agricultural property security
placed upon the market additional $400000O loan for