The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-07-28
RISING TIDE OF ANARCHY IN
EUROPE

The eyes of the world are on Austria,
watching the rapid development of condi-
tions which may break in another Euro
pean war If war comes it will probably
come in a few days or weeks. If the Aus
trian government is able to control the IN
tgrnal situation for few months, war may
be avoided The European situation IS
complicated and confused for the average
American Walter Lippman presents one
of the briefest and clearest statements OF
the Austrian problem, and the develop
ments leading to present conditions in that
country, that has been seen in this country
Portions of the Lippman article are as fol-
lows:
."For more than a year the best informed o.
Servers of Europe have been saying that peace
was at the mercy of an incident. The incident has
now occurred. The Chancellor of Austria has been
murdered by an armed band of Nazis. Whether or
not this plot was Matched in Germany with the
eonnvance or the direct participation of German
Nazis is a relatively minor question. 1t is indu-
bitable that terrorist propaganda against Dolfuss
has for months been conducted from Munich. Since
printed in the German press without the approval
of the government, the fierce and persistent ineite
fnent to violence against Dollfuss and his regime
are a responsibility of the German government
If, as appears to be only too obvious, the Nazi
terrorists IN Austria have also been at least in
part financed and armed from within Germany,
the issue is even sharper. .s-
! ''That this is aggression in everything but the
most technical legal sense of the term is certain
In 1914, when the Austrian archduke was MUIR
dered by cpnspirators who had their base in Ser
bia, the German Empire did not hesitate to hold
Serbia guilty of aggression.
'"The murder of Dollfuss has. therefore, raised
a question which requires definite answer, How
can this aggression which is directed not merely
at the peace of Austria, but at the constitution
of Europe, be met most effectively and most wis.,
ly? 1t has to be met in Austria by the united &C
ton of the powers They created Austria. They
have guaranteed the independence of Austria. If
they do not now make good that guaranty they
will, within short time, he confronted with ~
situation which is even more dangerous. Either
they stop the aggression against Austria and the
terrorism within Austria now and establish the
authority of the concert of Europe and of inter-
national law they invite the anarchy of civil
war, followed almost inevitably by a struggle
among themselves for the possession of what was
Austria.
! Austria is small state strategcally placed
between German, Czechoslovakia Hungary, Jugo-
savia, and Italy If it is independent and tranquil
it is at once buffer and bond among those five
nations. If it disintegrates some one must govern
it, and none of Austrias neighbors will, without
p struggle, allow any of the others to be master
in Austria. The Italians will not permit the Ger
mans; the Czechs and the Jugoslavs will not per-
mt the Italians. chaotic Austria is therefore,
certain to provoke an international war.
That is why the peace of Europe cannot be
preserved except by preserving the independence
OF Austria. There time, while Germany was
a pacific republic, when there were MANY dsinter-
ested persons who sympathetic to the union
with Austria. That sympathy rested on confidence
m the peaceful eharacter,of Germany 1t has now
vanished IN every capital of Europe and the opin-
lon that Austria's independence must be preserved
y as firmly held in London and Paris as it is IN
Rome and Prague. The Pan-German argument that
people of the same language must necessarily be
united politically is easily disposed of. There are
two French-speaking nations in Europe, and thew
are independent. There is Switzerland. in which
three languages are spoken, and no one in1agines
It ought to be partitioned and its parts Joined to
the nations speaking the same language. There are
some twenty Spanish-speaking countries in South
America. Finally, there are the two groups of in
dependent English-speaking peoples Why, then,
must it he assumed that the two Ger1nan-speaking
nations must be united for the first time in all