Evening star., 1935-07-14
LITTLE ENTENTE
WARNS AUSTR|ANS
TituIescu Says Armies to
Mobilize if Otto Re-
gains Throne.
BY the Associated Press,

ydIIIS IIIIUIlcs
BY the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, July 13.-The Haps-
burg family was warned today by q
powerful combination Of Austria's
neighbors to stay away from the nom
existent throne of Austria.
Nicholas Titulescu, foreign minis
ter of Rumania. announced that IL
the Hapsburg dynasty. which once
ruled parts Of Rumania, Yugoslavia
and CzechoSlovakia, were restored,
those three nations, now comprising
the Little Entente, would be forced to
mobilize their armies.
The hand of CZechoslovakia was
not apparent in the announcement,
but 1t was considered to carry the full
weight not only Of Rumania but of
YugoSlavia, for 1t was made after
Titulescu had conferred with Prince
Paul, regent Of YugoslaVia.
Mobilization Certain.
Said Titulescu: "Ihe Little En-
tente policies with respect to a Haps-
burg restoration have been settled on
a positive basis, and mobilization
would follow as a matter of course If
the dynasty Is re-established in
Vienna"
(Two contemporary events give
grave Importance to TltuleScu'S an
nouncement. They are:
q. The Archduke Otto, pretender to
the Austrian throne, has been report
ed on his way from his exile in Bel
GUM to Austria, which recently voted
to return the sequestered properties Of
the Hapsburgs to the royal family.
Prince Ready for Power.
g. The automobile accident today
near Linz, Austria, in which Chan
cellor Kurt Schuschnigg of that ma
ton was so seriously injured that he
may retire as chancellor in favor Of
Prince Ernst Won Starhemberg, Aus
tria's most militant Fascist. The
prince previously has been reported as
believing he should be called to form
a regency preparatory to the re-
enthronement of the Hapsburgs)
Titulescu, who has possibly greater
grasp Of international affairs than any
other statesman in Europe, fears that
a general European war is inevitable
within one or two years unless the
great powers, with the moral support
OF the United States, align themselves
against the nation threatening to be-
gin such a conflict.
In an interview with the Associated
Press, Titulescu declared that a mere
gesture of the great powers to use
all their forces against any nation
which threatened to attack another
without just cause, would soon make
war impossible.
Titulescu said that in the absence
of such a declaration by the powers,
the nations of Europe would have to
depend for continued peace and Sc
curity upon an extension of the pres
ent series Of pactS Of mutual assist
ance and non-aggression.
Soviet Relations Closer.
The Roumanian foreign minister
declared that following the conclusion
of the recent Franco-Soviet military
pact, Roumania was in closer relations
with Soviet Russia. He indicated Rou-
mania was prepared to sign a pact
of non-aggression with the Soviet
Union. He believed that the boil
sheviks would drop their claim to Bes-
sarabia.
Titulescu also said that Roumania
was fully prepared to join the pro-
posed Danubian pact, which would
embrace, besides, Roumania, Italy.
Austria, Hungary. Yugoslavia, Czecho-
and perhaps also Germany.
Such a pact, he felt, not only would
prevent war in Southeastern Europe,
but would have enormous political
and economic value. 1t would facili-
tate the exchange of commodities
among the various States represented
within the pact, and would result in
the breaking down of the present pro-
hibitive tariff barriers.
Unafraid Of Turkey.
Asked what Rumanias attitude is
on Turkeys desire to rearm the Dar-
danelles, the Rumanian foreign min
lister said: "AS Rumania is now on
good terms with Soviet Russia, and
as Rumania'S safety is assured by all
the existing pacts of security and nom
aggression, I see no danger to Ru-
mania from Turkeys rearming the
straits. Besides, both Rumania and
Turkey are members of the Balkan
pact, which guarantees us from at
tack by Turkey"
The correspondent asked Titulescu
the proposed German-Ru-
manian commercial agreement meant
that Rumania intended to modify her
well-known orientation with France
and the allied powers. 1T would be
monumental folly for Rumania to
abandon her known and tried friend,
France" said the foreign minister,
but we have to become friends with
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