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...different was the meeting in Rome of the experts whom Italy's Mussolini, Austria's Dollfuss and Hungary's Gömbbs had named to draw up an economic agreement to implement their Three Power Pact (TIME, March 26). Last week the experts had something to show. Austria and Italy had agreed to buy most of Hungary's surplus wheat at a fixed minimum price of 92.6? a bu.; Hungary and Italy, to buy Austria's lumber and wood-pulp; Austria and Hungary to lower tariffs 10% on any goods that pass through Italy...
...Rajchman. So glaring are the things that the League of Nations ills to do that the world is apt to forget the practical international charity which the League attempts. Year ago it was the League-inspired loan to Austria that did much to ward off Hitlerism and keep Engelbert Dollfuss in the saddle. Since 1930 the League has been doing what it could for impoverished China. Eight months ago it commissioned its Dr. Ludwik Rajchman, Polish expert on China, to act as financial adviser to the Nationalist Government and handle reconstruction work in the Chinese provinces...
...traditional military display in the Red Square, reviewed by Dictator Stalin and War Commissar Klimentiy Voroshilov. The second day was a thoroughgoing bourgeois fiesta. Buildings were strung with electric lights, loudspeakers blared dance music in the streets, truckloads of actors gave free shows in the squares. Austria. Shrewd Chancellor Dollfuss chose the Socialist holiday to proclaim Austria's long-brewing corporative Constitution. That Viennese children should always remember it happily. 50,000 schoolchildren were marched to the gigantic stadium in the Prater to see an elaborate theatrical pageant. Elsewhere Austria was not quite so peaceful. Nazi sympathizers strewed paper...
...years ago by a two-thirds majority. Vienna's Socialist Burgomaster Karl Seitz was in jail last week. At the same time a new Burgomaster, for whom not one Viennese had voted, was inducted into office with considerable ceremony in the neo-Gothic Rathaus. Appointed directly by Chancellor Dollfuss. Burgomaster Richard Schmitz is a fellow War veteran, a fellow Catholic, a fellow mem ber of the Christian Socialist Party and a onetime Vice Chancellor of Austria. He appeared in the city hall wearing round his neck the golden chain of office of Vienna's Burgomasters, first time...
This week Austria ceases to be a republic. A dictatorship in fact for a year, the Government of Engelbert Dollfuss announced that henceforth the official title of the nation will be the Federal State of Austria...