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...Chancellor of Germany did secretly meet and negotiated a most vital accord which they further agreed to rush into action with the greatest haste, before Adolf Hitler was due to address the Reichstag. Dr. Schuschnigg is one of Europe's hardest, smartest, most devoutly pious and most able statesmen. So far from the Nazis having been such fools as to try to crack him by third degree methods, the agreement, as it went into force, was chiefly remarkable for the way in which Dr. Schuschnigg had yielded much without yielding Austria's territorial integrity or sovereignty last week...
Private messages from Hankow, where Chinese censors worked overtime on news dispatches, reported that Chinese statesmen of the Kuomintang or National People's Party who set up the Government over ten years ago (TIME, May 2, 1927, et ante) "now fear the common people of China more than they do the Japanese, and would compromise with Japan . . . but the Communists are firm for resistance." A censored Hankow dispatch quoted Kuomintang Central Political Council Chairman Wang Ching-wei as announcing: "In the event that the Communist Party at any time revives the Class Struggle, there will be danger...
...Best Five. The most important aspect of the 15,000-word report made by van Zeeland last week, was not its inclusion of much good advice that economists have given for years and statesmen have failed to take...
...Statesmen know that when Paul van Zeeland was Premier of Belgium he proved, as Newspundit Walter Lippmann wrote last week, "to be perhaps the most efficient, the least confused and the most sure-footed of the statesmen who dealt with the Depression." Last spring Belgium's young and vigorous King Leopold III used his great popularity in England and France, his many contacts with London and Paris leaders-both Government and Opposition-to get Paul van Zeeland officially commissioned by the United Kingdom and the French Republic to make "an inquiry into the possibility of obtaining a general reduction...
...Geneva the 100th session of the Council of the League of Nations which had been about to open was suddenly postponed. In London Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hastily conferred with Anthony Eden, called home from Monte Carlo to duty : . the Foreign Office. For European statesmen felt that it was not just another French Cabinet which fell last week, that a crisis was at hand not only for France but for Europe...