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third party?

It is the answer to that ques- tion which has created a new situation for Austria, and led to the Austrian Chancellor's visit The visit to Budapest

to Budapest. He has reason to Schuschnigg will, without doubt, feel less confident of the future, give rise to as much rumour and though what Dr. Kanya can con- speculation as was created by tribute to a lessening of dis- Baron von Neurath's recent quietude is, at this distance, far courtesy call to Vienna. In marry from plain:

quarters there is a fixed deter-

mination to believe that the Ger- Seats at Half a Farthing

man Foreign Minister carried with him the offer of a Four-

Nothing in recent times has Power Defensive Pact, including shown the diminishing power of Hungary and Italy within its money better than the prices. orbit, and those of that way of being asked for seats along the thinking will not be surprised to route of the Coronation proces- find that Dr. Schuschnigg is now sion. In the British Museum talking over the diplomatic one may see a copy of a list of situation with Dr. Daranyi and such prices which indicates the Dr. Kanya.

relative value of money, the fluc- It seems more logical, taking tuating amount of loyalty of the the recent course of events as a people, and the state of pros guide, that Dr. Schuschnigg is perity of the kingdom. At the anxious to discover how far he Coronation of Edward I in 1272 can rely upon Hungary's backing the demand for a seat was half both in the matter of the Resa farthing, at the crowning of toration, Italy's shift having the second Edward the people created new difficulties, and re- were willing to pay a whole far- garding his steady resistance to thing. The price in Edward Hl's Hitler's A Anchsluss ambitions. day had risen to a halfpenny, For that is undoubtedly his in and the chronicler who gives tention. The Austrian Chancel these details seems to think that lor has, in fact, shown himself the show was cheap at the price. statesman of bolder spirit and Henry V was so popular that the greater address than was expeople opened their purses to pected when he succeeded to his the extent of twopence, and in most difficult post, and he has spite of the unpopularity of steered his way very warily Henry VI, of whom Shakespeare through the numerous pitfalls said that he could neither fight by which he is beset. His guid nor fly," twopence was given to ing principle is the independence see him on Coronation Day Be of his country, and by that heligious convictions seem to have means a real independence and played their part in regulating not, say, an independence like the prices, for while my people' that of Manchukuo in relation to gladly disbursed sixpence at the Japan. He has placed his own time of the crowning of Queen patriotic interpretation upon the Elizabeth they remembered Pact which was concluded last bloody Mary they afterwards. July between Austria and Ger- went into a paroxysm of joy on many, and while in his broadcast getting rid of the Boundheads message on that occasion he pro- and planked down their half- claimed that “Austria recognises crowns gladly as Charles IF end- herself to be a Germanic State" ed his “travels" and mounted the and asserted “We Austrians are throne of his fathers. Germans," he has never lent the least encouragement to the vari. ous glosses which German pro- pagandists have placed upon it. That Pact, it will be remember- ed, emphasised the mutual inter-spend the pub ests of the two German States, ha but it also recorded Germany recognition of the sovereignty

istria

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policy towards

the extension of Ge ce over Austrian poli every sphere, oth political

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