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...Robert Emmet Sherwood and his U. S. producers made much hay with as Reunion in Vienna. In Rome's Imperial Hotel, they bowed their heads and bent their knees in a chamber where, on a borrowed golden throne raised on a dais, sat Zita, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, mother of Otto, the 20-year-old pretender to the throne of Austria, Hungary or both...
...Heimwehr Leader Prince von Starhemberg shouted that unless the Chancellor's projected "Christian Corporative State" turned out to be 100% Fascist he and his followers would refuse to support it. Agrarian Leader Franz Winkler, defender of democracy, cried, "We are not going to fight Naziism, merely to help Austro-Fascism into the saddle!" The famed "Dollfuss Front" seemed to be breaking up like the Yukon in April. At this juncture the vest-pocket Chancellor went to Church last week and prayed some more. The Ballhausplatz was jammed with cars all night. Lights blazed in the Chancellery windows till dawn...
There were good things in the bag for Hungary, too. After the signing of an Austro-Hungarian agreement to swap Hungarian wheat for Austrian wood, Italy announced that she too would buy her surplus wheat from Hungary. Repeated rumors came from Paris and London that France and Britain were also about to reward the little Chancellor by lifting quota restrictions against Austrian goods. The beginnings of world recovery allowed the Vienna Chamber of Commerce to announce last week that Austria's foreign trade, though still far from healthy, was definitely better...
...Duce had guessed the right way to handle Chancellor Hitler. The French and British were haughtily told by Berlin's Foreign Office that "this intervention in Austro-German difficulties is inadmissible," but the Italian Government received a discreet, direct pledge that German propaganda to Nazify Austria will be toned down...
...statesmen exchanged the draft text of an Austro-Hungarian-Italian trade treaty which may prove of utmost impor tance. It is no secret that Il Duce opposes Adolf Hitler's efforts to draw Austria into union with Germany-which would mean that Italy would face on her northern frontier not puny Austria but the potent German Reich. According to the draft text exchanged in Rome last week Italy is ready to agree to increase her purchases from Austria and Hungary and, over a period of years, to buy from them more than they sell...