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Trick on Austria, As expected, the League Council shifted to the World Court last week the job of passing on the legality of the Austro-German attempt to form a "customs union" or Zollverein (TIME, March 30, et seq.). Scot Henderson at this point nearly took Austrian Dr. Johann Schober into camp...
...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...
...Berlin. Dr. Schober's colleague in drafting the pact, Foreign Minister Julius Curtius of Germany, grew even bolder. He flatly rejected a proposal by Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson of Great Britain that the whole question of whether Germany and Austria can, without violating their treaty obligations, form a customs union, be put up to the League of Nations...
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...