THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 18, 1938,
Austro-German Union Foreshadowed
London, To-day.
With very few exceptions, the British press reacts favourably and with sympathy to the develop- ments in Austria.
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"The Times" expects that reconstruction of the Austrian Cabinet, as well as the amnesty for political prisoners, are merely the first of many measures to be taken under the Austro-Ger- man agreement.
The journal attaches importance to the visit to: Germany of the new Austrian Home Minister, and says it may result in sharper control of the press law.
In a leading article, "The Times" says that everything depends on what the agreement arrived at ac- tually looks like.
NO SURPRISES
None of its provisions
would,
isolated from the rest of the Ger man race.
As for the new.. agreement, it could only be judged by the con- tribution it made to European stability.
In England, the opinion prevail- ed that Germany could only attain its aims on the other side of the Austrian frontiers by peaceful
means.
But as for Gei an “expansion,” however, in the light of Austro- which means German economic in- German relations, be a great sur-fluence, it is not a policy of peace prise.
to oppose such expansion.—Trans-
Close understanding between the Ocean.
two German states would be the
most. natural thing in the world.
One of the most irrational, E. H. B. Neil, of
Homestead,
most criminal and most provoca-Shek-O, was this morning fined $3 tive provisions in the Peace at the Central Magistracy for driv Treaties was the embargo on anjing in a westerly direction in that Austro-German union.
portion of Chater Road which is only open to East-bound traffic.
One of the greatest mistakes of European policy since the War was condemnation by The Hague Court of the intended union."
EUROPEAN STABILITY No treaty could keep Austria
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