Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-15
SCHUSCHN|CG SEES
IL DUCE ON APRIL z
Hint to Course Sought in
ChanCeI|or's Policy
Declaration.
BY FRANK L. HAYES.

~ Hadlo 10 Inc star.
VIENNA, Austria, April 15.-An-
nouncement was made today that DR..
Kurt Schuschnigg, chancellor of Aus
tria, will have his long promised con-
ference with Premier Benito Mussolini
OF Italy at Venice on April o. For this
reason political observers studied with
special interest the statements of Aus
trian policy proclaimed by the chan
cellor yesterday at provincial rally
In Eisenstadt.
The chancellor said that Austria
could fulfill its duty only if it is an
independent state and that its duty is
to act as a guarantor of peaceful de-
velopment in this, the heart of Eu-
rope" He added that Austria could
fulfill this duty better because it is not
imperialistic. Commenting, the Wen
ma Tag, formerly Democratic jour-
nal, said: Our little country, as an
important European crossroad, must
refuse to be harnessed up for foreign
imperialistic tendency"
Urges Bar to Propaganda.
Firm resistance to the German cam
paign for the admission of more Nazi
newspapers into Austria was seen in
the further declaration by the chan
cellcr that maintaining independence
means the rejection of propaganda for
annexation whether from without Or
within
This remark implied the existence Of
propaganda for annexation from
without" although by the agreement
of last July Germany undertook to re-
spect Austria's sovereignty over its in
ternal affairs. Of late a polemic cam
paign against Austria has been con-
Quoted in German journals which are
as the Austrian government points out,
official
DR.. Schuschnigg also declared, "It
Is false to say that there are only two
choices - annexation by greater
neighbor or return to a previous form
of government" Though the chancel-
lor did not use the word monarchy"
observers regard the statement as
meaning that the government is drop
ping the restoration campaign for the
present. Previously a semi-official
newspaper had rebuked the mon
archists for Growing over the silence of
the Little Entente on the subject of
restoration.
Restoration Opposed.
Although the Little Entente was
silent in its Belgrade communique, Of
flcials of the affiliated nations have
declared themselves sharply against
restoration - most recently, Milan
Hodza, premier of Czechoslovakia.
Czechoslovakia Jagged behind Yugo-
slavia in offering vigorously unequi-
vocal remonstrance against the latest
Austrian restoration campaign, and it
has been widely believed, particularly
in Hungary, that the monarchists had
received at least negative encourage
ment from the Czechs The latter,
however, have been consistent in pro-
Tossing that they did not regard the
issue as current. They explained:
1--WE recognized the campaign as
plul1 dllu ulu iloI Will W ulSully OI
aid it by more talk"
Meanwhile the Czechs have some
thing more mysterious to ponder in
the skyline words of Heinz Rutha at
meeting of the Sudenten German
party in Marienbad. Rutha said that
the fate of Sudenten Germans in
Czechoslovakia lis not a matter of in
difference to the German fatherland"
and he urged the party to stick to-
gether until December"
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