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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1933.
MAN WHO DEFIED
HITLER
CHANCELLOR DOLLFUSS SUBDUES NAZIS
INVIGORATING
PERSONALITY··
(By George Slocombe.)
Vienna, May 27. Only four feet eleven inches separate Austria from anarchy.
For four feet eleven inches is the ed.
to
the
Austria or
restore monarchy. "My belief in the principles of If the line is not clear when
democratic government is unchang- the train approaches the "dis-
But the question to-day in not tant" signal the engine's steam stature of Chancellor Dollfuss, who one of democracy; it is one of self-
It is not a choice be- whistle is put into action. This during the past few days has preservation. releases the vacuum Brake... astonished the world by his defiance another, but between Austria or no tween one form of democracy and The train is brought to a of Germany and his peremptory ex-Austria. standstill before the "home"
"Faced with this challenge I have But for the invigorating per- not scrupled to dispense with parlia The automatic check is worked sonality of this leader who stands ment until we can create a parlis- By a third rail or "ramp" of forty outside the confusions and rivalries blems.
ment more suitable to modern pro- yards long that runs between the
We are now working night two ordinary
of parliamentary politics, Austria and day to revise the Constitution lines near the istant" or cautionary signal.
would already have been plunged so that parliament can deal with tato civil war.
jurgent economic, social and agricul- tural problems quickly and practi- Neither the Social Christian cally, In order to prevent these..... Party, which constitutes the Gov- problems being approached as in the
signal is reached independent of pulsion of the Nazi Minfeters. the driver.
Your Daily Smile
ISN'T THAT TRUE?
the
"At twenty-six you left the crament's precarious Parliamentary past, from a narrow party stand- farm and came to the city. And majority of one, nor the troops of point, I intend to reconstruct
present Upper Chamber
not on for thirty years you have been the Heimwehr, nor the enfeebled political lines, but on corporative ||working like the dickens. What Socialist opposition, is strong en-lines. At the same time I intend *.
for?"
The Nari Demand.
"To get enough money to live in Gugh to resist the impetuous ad- to remodel the Lower Chamber." |the country.”
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vance of the Nazi minority which
I asked the Chancellor if he had recently threatened, and will
[not considered a coalition with the NO DANGER.
threaten again, to carry the coun-Nazis, since in some respects his The two actressca were having try in the wake of Germany. own programme of internal re- history. Whereas the American tea together, and among the topics price average had varied relative of conversation that came up was
To-day I am able to transmit the forms resembled theirs.
His reply first declaration of his internalThey demanded a share of govern was immediate and unequivocal: ly little in the half-dozen years burglary. Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jane 21, 1933. before the war, it was driven up "I always feel safe when there's and foreign policy made by Chan-ment, but I refused. I refused 147 per cent. by the waste, extra-a man in the house," remarked the cellor Dollfuss since his drastic primarily because they are not an vagance and industrial paralysis brunette,
American Prices Recover.
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Austria.
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of the war itself. Congress, even "I don't see why you shouldn't, measures to avert a Nazi coup in Austrian party but a foreign party, in its inflationary mood, never dear," purred the blonde.. ventured to propose artificial re- storation of the prices of 1920 or
Signs of recovery in American 1918; usually it has voted to
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"With B Nazi coalition fa power in Austria the Anschluss with Germany would be three- Congress of Vienna assembled near-
quarters accomplished."- ly 120 years ago.
Dr. Dollfuss incidentally declared. The pale eyes above the long, thin that Austria would never enter the nose of the famous Austrian Chan- Danubian Customs Federation with cellor looked mournfully down upon the Little Entente and Hungary, modern Vienna,
"I believe," he explained "that Even more apprehensive of the the best way for a little country future seemed the boyish face of like Austria to keep her political the Emperor Francis Joseph in a and economic Independence is to be- full-length portrait painted upon come self-supporting. And
to
numerous to be disputed. They of 1926 was 43 per cent. above reflect not only the recuperation that of 1913. The course of the which was to be expected after world' prodhetion, enormously the "banking panic" bad been expanded by war-time influences, dispelled. Almost without ex-land of consumption, equally re- ception, indices of trade activity duced by the poverty with which, have lately been showing up dis-the belligerent States emerged MOTHER: You know, John, it's tinctly better than in 1932. Cur- from war, was certainly not such positively shameful the way that rent production of steel, for in-as to justify that level. We now boy speaks. I just beard him any stance, is now not only consider-know that it was artificially main- to the boy next door:
ain't jably more than double the output tained through the most lavish never went nowhere."
of two months or so ago, but isjuse of credit. When, with the FATHER: Shameful! Why he actually the largest since the added influences of reckless spe- has travelled twice middle of 1931. The spirit of culation, resources of credit had most boys of his age! growing cheerfulness in indus-been strained to the breaking trial circles is unmistakable; even point, the decline of prices was in April, manufacturing employ-far more violent because of the ment scored the largest percent-long resistance to it. This is not age of increase of any month in to say that a 38 per cent, decline
The Persian Parliament hasi the decade past. It is generally in four years, bringing prices by
the admitted, however, that continu-the Labour Bureau's March adopted
metric system of!. ance and extension of improve-calculation to the lowest average standerd in that country,
weights and measures as the official ment will depend to a consider-since 1905, was insufficient to able extent on the course of correct the excesses of wartime prices. According to the United and post-war markets. The rea- giant X-ray tube has been construct- Operating at 800,000 volta, `a States Labour Bureau's, weekly Bonable probability is that, but ed for treating cancer patients in a index-numbers," the average of for the disastrous interference by Chicago hospital. commodity prices in America has frightened governments with the now recovered about 41% per cent. normal machinery of trade, prices
For teaching children to ride an square forehead, wide-set brown from the year's low figure, would long since have adjusted Italian has invented a mechanical eyes, a firm humorous mouth, tiny reached in the first week in themselves, at a normal level of horas that walks, trots and gallops hands and feet. His manner, con- March. This advance is the most recovery. The prodigious in-on legs made of steel pipe, marked that has occurred during debtedness, contracted under the any year since 1929; even the high prices of 1926, 1920 and
A slide rule has been invented for advance between June and 1918, and its burden on the bor accurately measuring the power, September of last year was bare- rowers under the conditions of speed and other information regard- ly 8 per cent. To what extent 1932 and 1933, is another ques- ing trucks undergoing road tests. the recent movement marks a tion. Always a legacy of such a positive check to the general fall war, that has to be settled by
his accession to the throne.
achieve this those countries which But neither Chancellor nor Em-sell goods to us must be prepared to peror foresaw that the Austria take our goods in exchange." Facts You Did Not which one of them partly created
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in prices is not yet convincingly itself. Much progress has already One day M. Coty publishes a list of apparent.
Last Summer's re-been made; in the end the pro-famous Corsicans, omitting its most [covery continued longer than any blem will be solved.
similar advance during the de- pression period, but it was fol- lowed by relapse in the price
Another Corsican,
renowned living son. An old French- man writes: "This is fine, but some {thing is wanting. Italy had," "ber; Mussolini, who put her on her feet;
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and the other largely lost would Such is the policy of this remark- to-day be saved by a humble pea-able figure who, in physique, is sant's son.
rather a doll than Dollfuss. Before I met Engelbert Dollfuss His career has been astonishing- the President of the Republic, ro-ly brief and uneventful.
He was bust and jovial Dr. Mikles, had born forty years ago in the village [described him to me in a single of Mank, in Lower Austria, the son vivid phrase: "He is our little Na-jot a poor family of peasants. His poleon" "Unser Kleine Napoleon."brother is still a peasant farmer in
The Austrian Napoleon is the that village. smallest semi-dictator in Europe..
(Continued on Page 11.;
He has a large head, an immense
¡trary to what I had been led to ex-
pect, is unassuming and even shy;; his voice low and undeclaimatory.
Pride Of A People.
His first words belled, however, the timidity of his appearance. I had asked him if there was any im lng in Austria. mediate likelihood of a Nazi upris-
"The Nazi danger,” he said,
MONKEY DEFIES
CITY
Half Hour Thrill For Busy Bombay.
BOMBARDED BY SIGHTSEERS
'Bombay. A strange monkey wandered into "Is past. I have no fear of the busiest part of Bombay recent- Nazis either here or in Germany. ly and held the city at its mercy for I shall protect Austria's inde thirty minutes. pendence, from attacks from During its half-hour visit it: de average to the lowest level yet Envy on the part of other French Germany has her Hitler, who wishes whatever quarter they come, fed a crowd of 300 people, caused reached. Nevertheless, the un-journalists is vainly trying to choke to put her on her feet. That's why within the country or without. s 15-minute traffic jam, frightened interrupted downward trend has the cry rising in ever greater. I say every day and everywhere: We "During the past few days you the residents of a building into lock- ceased to prevail for nearly a volume in L'Ami du Peuple and have in France a man a thousand have witnessed a veritable risorging themselves in, and dodged = twelvemonth. The tendency, quite Figaro that their Rlustrious pro- cubits greater than these, and here mento in Austria, The long buried 15-minute bombardment of old junlike that of 1930 and 1931, has prietor, M. Francois Coty, reform, we are going to pleces, Lead. Call pride of our people has awakened boots and shoes, never getting bit
been toward recurrent recovery, save and run France. Napoleon I on the French and they will follow. We desire only to live in peace and The monkey, finding itself un jand that, even when followed by was born at Ajaccio in 1769, Fran-Ita Coty orders that France be friendship with Germany, but we popular on the streets, climbed to temporary resumption of decols Coty was born in Ajaccio in saved, the Blums and all that fitb shall not suffer any threats, to our the roof of a high, building, where chines, is the familiar phenomenon 1874. The predestined succession is will swiftly skip across the frontier, independence, political or economic it resisted a bombardment put up when deflation has begun to evident. A beautiful aroma of hope Hitler will not be so insolent as heAlthough there is a raical by 300 people. Old boots and shoes, spend its force. The one unchal- and adoration burns in the letters looks toward the west. The new affinity between ourselves and Ger- tins, stones and stricks were lenged fact of the downward which M. Coty publishes daily, as Bonaparte-Coty will rescue our well-many, we have a different concept showered upon it put it dodged readjustment is that it cannot go usual making duty override his beloved France. Doubtless for the of the Germanic, ideal from the them all. She on forever. At some point equill- otherwise invincible modesty. It is purpose of consolidating his posi Nazi concept."
Plans were made for a shooting brium will be reached. It is insulting to say that these are writ tion, M. Coty has been rehabilitat "We Austrians do not dif- party to attack it, and a campaign usually reached after prices have ten in the offica. Every one is ac: Ing the character of Louis XV. Can ferentiate between various sections was laid to smoke it out. been carried unwarrantably low.companied with a name and address, he healtate to undertake the re- of mankind. We do not believe The crowd emitted cat-calis, One of the strangest things in often with statement of age and babilitation of France? It seems men of other races or other re-booed, jeered, and yelled at it. the controversies over the fall in profession. Look at one of these clear that fate and metaphysical aid ligions are inferior to ourselves, or Women screamed and dogs barked. prices has been the persistent cotyledons of dictatorship or em and his correspondents decree that to be treated as inferiors. All men Finally, the monkey, tired of all ignoring of the reason for it. pire: "As in 1800 the country ace he shall be Napoleon IV-Napoleon in Austria, are free and equal, and the din, surveyed the missiles that Yet every one should know that claimed its savior, so on the day of the Fretty Perfumer, the railing while I am Chancellor they will re-had fallen all round it, and finding precisely the same decline, and its deliverance in one vehement Parisians will say It will be no use main so to nothing to its Hiding, walked over to in the long run with much the shout of joy it will roar Long Live for the police to say to the Cotylate, “I am not a dictator. 1 in the parapet, made one last grimace, asme" scope of defation, has oc- Francel" Long Live Coty! as once, Circulée, – mesateurs, circules. - Cir democrat. I do not intend to and disgruntledly climbed down curred after every great war in it cried Long Live the Emperor?” culation is their business..
establish a dictatorslag, in pipe making is escape-Reuter.