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...Austria, where the powerful Christian-Socialist party of Monsignor Ignaz Seipel is opposed on principle to even economic union with Protestant Germany, the menacing reactions of France and Czechoslovakia produced an abrupt, startling result. For a few days at least almost the whole press got behind Austrian Foreign Minister Johann Schober, champion of the pact. He was able to talk big and bold. He threatened to appeal to the Hague Court...
Austrian Surprise. The announcement by Dr. Curtius in Berlin and by Dr. Schober in Vienna of their agreement last week probably surprised more than any one else Austria's boss-politician?beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, onetime Austrian Chancellor and leader of the Christian-Socialist (Catholic) party...
...Monsignor Seipel opposes Anschluss be cause Germany is so thoroughly Protestant that in a United Austro-German state the Catholic Party would not hold that balance of power which it now holds in Austria. There is bad blood between Dr. Schober and Monsignor Seipel. It was not by accident that the Foreign Minister waited to spring his surprise until the Monsignor, ailing with pleurisy and dia betes, had gone to Switzerland...
...which may upset the whole apple cart and that is the alarm with which the Austrian Roman Catholics are regarding their probable subordination to the overwhelming number of Protestants in Germany. In Austria the Catholics form a large majority, while in Germany it is just the other way around. Monsignor Seipel is said to have hurried back from Switzerland to Vienna and declared that his followers will support the union only provided it is approved by those nations having most-favored-nation trade treaties with Austria. This innocent looking provision may make a troublesome stumbling-block to the ultimate acceptance...
Decidedly otherwise was the cognate condemnation of Protestantism in Mexico, harshly cried out last week by one of the Pope's subalterns, Indian-blooded Monsignor Pascual Diaz, Archbishop of Mexico. Monsignor Diaz was ejected from Mexico four years ago for pursuing his religious duties in ways which violated Mexican constitutional laws (TIME...