The Indianapolis times., 1934-02-17

and the presidential refusal to per-
nit court-marital sentences to be
executed, left the Vienna situation
in doubt.
The Christian Socialist president
leader of Chancellor Engelbert
DollfuSs' party, while he f1outed
Fascist ambitions to conduct mass
hanging of their defeate enemies,
seemed to approve of the Fascists
themselves.
He decorated Major Emil Fey,
vice-chancellor and Fascist leader,
with the Austrian Grand Cross,
charterizing him as chiefly instru-
mental in breaking the revolution,
thereby probably marking a turn
ing point in the history Of central
Europe"
The condemned men we're par
doned dramatically. The United
Press correspondent was with the
condemned men. The hour of eX-
ecution approached. Officials turned
back the clock as the three-hour
execution period passed. The con-
demned men were served with cof-
fee, in compliance with their last
wish, as the moment approached at
which they would be taken to the
scaffold. The states attorney, their
prosecutor, ran into the prison,
radiant, breathleSS, and announced
their pardon.
Thank God, I am not too late"
he said.
Relatives of the prisoners were
admitted to see them, crying with
joy.
Socialist leaders on the Czecho-
slovakian border of Austria, Austrian
Nazis on the German border, italian
troops on the italian frontier i'm
PEELED the French cabinet to hang
back on any effort toward revitaliz-
ing the disarmament conference.
The collapse of the Socialist re-
volution in Austria meant only the
revival of an old problem here-the
ultimate fate of little Austria,
amasculated heart of Europe, torn
between Nazis and FasciSts.
Anthony Eden, British lord of the
privy seal, and Lord Tyrell, British
ambassador and veteran diplomatist,
sought in a conference with a bat
terry of French cabinet ministers
today to advance the idea of a
seven power European disarmament
conference.
But minds we're not on disarma-
ment. Frenzied over riots of their
own, having heard over wireless
hookups speeches that indicated
German and Austrian Nazis were
waiting their chance to step over
the German frontier into Austria
and seize power, French cabinet
ministers sought to strengthen
Frances own position.
By United Press
PARIS, Feb. 17.-Austria' blood
bath has killed efforts to revitalize
the world disarmament conference
on its present basis, it was learned
today.
Not only we're France and Ger
many far apart on disarmament,
but the picture of Europe torn be-
tween Socialist and Fascist parties,
caused democratic governments to
postpone any plans they might
have had for rapprochement.
That the Nazi themselves were
divided, Catholic and Protestant,
was another factor.
Lord Eden, in his visit here, ad-
vanced the idea of a conference of
the seven nations most interested in
European disarmament - Great
Britain, France, Italy, Yugoslavia,
Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Po-
land. They would draft a disarma-
ment convention for presentation to
Germany and other nations outside
the League of Nations.
But with Socialists making their
death stand in Austria, after their
defeat in Italy, Germany and Po-
land, and their setback in riots in
France itself last week, the time
was regarded as not propitious for
talk of disarmament.