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Vienna was agog last week when the German Chancellor, Dr. Wilhelm Marx, accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Gustav Stresemann, arrived to return the official visit made a year ago to Berlin by the then Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Rudolph Ramek...
Although the official reason for the visit was that of returning Chancellor Ramek's call, and though it was admitted that the secondary object of the visit was to secure Vienna as an ally at Geneva, it was nevertheless mooted that the real objects were to discuss the anschluss (or union of Austria and Germany) and a preliminary economic entente. Despite denials that these subjects were not broached, it was pointed out that two such distinguished German statesmen, overburdened by the pressure of work, would not make the journey to Vienna for the simple object of discussing a mutual...
...then, if Chancellor Ramek was forced to resign because he resisted the organized bureaucrats (TIME, Oct. 25), was he replaced by Chancellor Seipel who will resist still more vigorously...
Personal Triumph. Explanation lies in the fact that the potent Christian Socialist-Party controls sufficient votes to control the Chancellory, but is divided within itself on the question of "states rights" for the Austrian provinces v. pan-Austrian "centralism." Dr. Ramek, leader of the former group, waxed potent two years ago, and usurped the Chancellory (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924) from Mgr. Seipel, Chancellor then as now, when the latter was under fire (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924) for not raising the salaries of Austria's state-employed railway workers...
Since then the Christian Socialist pendulum has swung back to Mgr. Seipel, and last week brought him again into power on the upsurge of a great personal triumph. The new Cabinet is identical with the resigned cabinet of former Chancellor Ramek with four exceptions...