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Mussolini told Austria's Chancellor Schuschnigg that he could no longer defend Austrian independence as he had before, but the gobbling of Austria by Germany might be postponed many months if Austria would follow Yugoslavia in joining a Fascist bloc of Danubian States which would isolate Czechoslovakia from her French and Russian allies...
With surprising gumption Dr. Schuschnigg said no. Subsequently he was understood to have learned that France and Britain were finally willing to support him with something more than fine words. It was to prevent Hungary from following this uncomfortable lead that last week's visit was arranged. There were peasant processions, State dinners, and the director of the Budapest museum gave little Vittorio Emanuele three small silver coins to add to his numismatic collection...
...most lively political project in Europe is the Fascist "axis" swiftly being forged by Dictators Mussolini and Hitler. The latter's beefy No. 2 man. Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, has been down to Italy twice in four months to discuss it. Last month Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg went down to Venice from Vienna to find out just where Austria stood in the new picture (TIME, May 3). Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, has been to Berlin for a courtesy call. Last week it was the turn of Hitler's Foreign Minister...
...question of Austria, Mussolini repeated what he had told Chancellor Schuschnigg in Venice, that Italy would not fight Germany to preserve Austrian independence. Baron von Neurath in return gave his assurance that Germany would make no move to annex Austria by arms, would be content "with economic penetration of the Danube basin...
Back in Vienna last week was spectacled, modest Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg carrying, from his head-to-head with Benito Mussolini at Venice, nothing more tangible than a rueful expression (TIME, May 3). To let off steam Chancellor Schuschnigg promptly ordered the arrest of 20 "provocative" Nazis, announced truculently that "there will be no coalition with Nazis in Austria." Thus he shrugged off the Italian suggestion that Austria's Nazis should be represented in the Fatherland Front, Chancellor Schuschnigg's party...