The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
On the
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES

Hitler VS.. MussOlini
Gateway to the Near East
WHAT are the tins of Star
W misunderstanding and
Co. (backed by Mussolini) in
Austria? Both Hitler and
Mussolini looked upon Austria
as the key to the Danube
basin, that rich agrarian and
industrial area of central Europe,
and as a gateway to the Near East
and the Soviet Union.
Hitler's policy was, with the aid
of the Nazis in Austria, through an
uprising and armed Intervention, to
force the "Anschluss" (union with
Austria), in order to use Austria as
a springboard for war against the
Soviet Union The growing catas-
trophe in Germany precipitated
Hitler's war plans and caused their
collapse, increasing still further all
the internal contradictions of Ger
man fascism, and heightening tbs
antagonisms of all Of the imperiahst
powers in Europe.
DESPITE all of Hitler's attempts
" to reach an alliance with Mus
solini, the antagonisms between ]
these two fascist bandits is now so
great that their mutual embraces
in a few short weeks are turned
into a bitter hatred Of the kind
that drove Hitler to slaughter his
best friend Roehm.
Fascism forI ders in HOPELESS,
ever-increasing, ever-broading con-
tradictions.
1t cannot move in any direction
without undermining its whole struc-
ture, without bringing all Of human
ity closer to new slaughters, to mass
starvation and the great calamities.
Not long before the present Nazi
putsch in Austria, both Prince Won
Starhemberg and acting Chancellor
Schussnigg wrote articles and mads
speeches Of their aims, in conjunc-
ton with Italian fascism.
IN the magazine the Christian
| Cooperative State der Christi
che Staendestaat), Schusnigg wrote :,
Of "Austria's Mission" At that tine
he said:
I'VE can, without presumption, :.
aspire to be the tool of the
heavenly will for the reconstruc-
ton of Europe, and beyond that
of the whole world"
Now let's see how this agent of
god vying with Hitler for the honor
proposes, along with Won Starhem-
berg, to reconstruct the world"
Won Starhemberg gives us the de-
tails in a speech he delivered be-
fore he went to visit Mussolini.
Under the title "Austria's Mission in
Europe" Won Starhemberg said:
Here, in the Danube basin,
we Germans Of Austria will show
that in us the old German forces
still dwell, which once upon a
time enabled our forefathers to
create a world kingdom. We want
to influence greater spaces than
those spanned by the frontiers of
Austria of today"
THE organ of the Heimwehr, the
armed fascist forces led by Won
S t ar h e NIB erg, "Oesterreischisch
Abendzeitung, joyfully gre ct e d N
Mussolini's claim to conquest in
Asia and Africa. They declared that
they hoped to get rich crumbs from
the spells wrung from other coun-
tries by Mussolinis armies, saying:
1.-THE whole of Asiatic trade can
increase to an extent hardly irnag-
Unable today, and when the i'm
portance Of Vienna as a trade centre
of the Danube, which flows into the
Black Sea (and we may point out
not far from Soviet territory-H.
g. will be tremendously increased.
Vienna could become, which is
and once was its destiny, centre
of trade up to the Levant, and
thereby would be given it's political
mission to a greater extent"
"AUSTRIA'S Mission" backed by
"A Italian fascism, then becomes
quite clearly preparation for new
colonial plumber and a drive for
greater profits at the expense Of
territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and at
tacks on the Soviet Union in the
Near East.
WITH the armies Of European cap
W italsm modified for war, We
may be sure they will not be sent
back to their previous posts, despite
the collapse of Hitler's insaneil
schemes. They have moved a stepH
forward towards war, and will re-
main in that position waiting for
the order to march in order to reals
lze the dreams of each of the vari-
Gus imperialist powers for enlarged
GO far as Hitler is concerned, his
y move alienates greater masses.
The base of German fascism be-
comes ever narrower. Hitler was
forced to squash the dream of the
Austrian Nazi Legionnaires who had
counted on the promised help for
the invasion of Austria. They are
now beginning to declare they were
betrayed. That their brothers wers
sent to the slaughter and were not
given she promised assistance.
At the same time, the German
people are confronted more drastic
ally than ever before with the mad,
war policy of German
fascism. They now see that they
live not On1v in tho ev>oct ,ov nj