1939-09-14 — Page 8

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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 14, 1939.

MIRROR OF WORLD

OPINION

AUSTRIAN OPPOSITION

YOUTH'S REPROACH

After a year of the heaviest oppres- Social security!

What has that

and

sion there are signs of rising opposi- to do with youth, or youth with it? tion in Austria. On July 25, the an- A whole generation of youngsters, ap- niversary of Dr. Dollfuss's assasina-parently-children of the depression- tion, his grave was covered with has skipped its natural worries flowers. So was the Dollfuss Memory fixed its eyes upon social security. And Chapel on the Hohe Wand, a moun- they mean social security for to-day. tain near Vienna. On the night of None of the depression's special the anniversary hundreds of Viennese havocs, we should guess, is any more carrying small candles climbed this likely to bring evil to the race than 5,000 ft. mountain to celebrate in this laying of a clammy palsied hand the chapel a quiet ceremony for Dr. upon the spirit of youth. More power Dollfuss. The Nazis had forbidden all to every youngster that struggles to official masses for him and had chosen shake it off! his anniversary as the day to unveil

Time was, and you don't have to

the

a monument to his murderers. On go back to Daniel Boone or the '49ers the next day it was found so heavily when youth was a time for reckless- besmeared with red lead that it had ness and vision, not for security of Youth became feverish över to be removed. The same thing hap- any sort.

those experience, adventure, squeezing pened to the name-plates of streets which had been called after heady juices out of life. the murderers last year. They also

The vote for social security is no have been put away and are not yet exclusive reproach to youth; it hits renewed. In St. Stephen's Cathedral the world surrounding. Youth's de-

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secrated for the soul of Dr. Dollfuss. bpportunity withdrawn. But we don't any The Gestapo is trying to suppress this believe it is a true philosophy opposition. The police made a big more than it was in frontier days, and search in the barracks of the Viennese the youth that forgets about social motorized regiment No. 3 and of the security is the one most likely to arrive infantry regiment No. 134, where they at it by the time he needs it."New found some Socialist and “monarchist York World-Telegram." leaflets, copies of the Illegal "Oester- reichischer Beobachter"a duplicated newspaper. with information for the enemies of the Nazi regime-and a few English newsletters. The abbots of the famous Austrian monasteries

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FLUTTERINGS

We have pointed out that it is not

Melk and Gottweig have been ar- necessary to worry about the various rested, and also the leader of the visits of "mystery men" who are now Austrian Catholic Women's Or- engaged in moth-like flutterings ganization, Dr. Alma Motzko. Herr about the Fuehrer at Berchtesgaden, Buerkel has forbidden all Catholic processions, declaring they were no thing else than a review of the op- position.

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IN THE BALKANS

It is, however, worth noting that Nazi official sources are trying to con- ceal the flutterings of the Hungarian Foreign Minister, Count Csaky.

They would; because Csaky is not- oriously the agent of Axis policy in Hungary.

His aim is to play into Hitler's hands by getting rid of Horthy and all those who do not want Hungary to be a new dependency of Nazidom.

In some ways, it is surprising to note how hostile Balkan public feel- He is, in fact, the typical Fifth ing is against Berlin. Nazi agents Columnist, working behind the scenes. conduct insidious whispering cam- We know the type and the method,.-- paigns to the effect that "the demo- "Daily Mirror."

cracies could not save Prague," and one would have expected the resultant combination of fear and economic

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worry to have been successful. But that is not the case, for two reasons. One newspaper headline says, "Roo- The Balkan States, without

tion, resent the blatancy and as- sertiveness of the German economic penetration; and further, the Italian invasion of Al- bania shook the Balkan world in a way that we have not yet grasped.

It brought Italy to the borders of Greece and within striking distance. of the

· oversea route to the Ae- gean. The stratégic crossroads of the south Balkans were clearly in jeopardy with Ita- ian legionaries as- tride the road south to Janina

(and

thus the

excep- sevelt Hints He'll Not Run."

SWITZERLAND'S NEUTRALITY.

Often spoken of as the uncon- querable country, Switzerland for three years has been preparing against conquest. In the war of- fice at Berlin are plans for mak ing Switzerland a alde door or a by-pass around the Maginot lino. Under every bridge, rallway, and road that crossas the Swiss bar- ədər -areoharges of dynamite to foll any such plans. And 50 miles back is another ring of 'do- fendos. All along the German border'new forts have been built. And I was told that for “appear- ances' sake" two had been erect- ed on the French border. Dono. van Richardson.

An-

other says, "Gives Not a Hint About Third Term. Which only goes to show how much a press which sup- posedly reports only objective news can do with headlines. And how

much sum- mer reading a Pre- sident can furnish by keeping uncer- tainty alive!

Mr.

Roosevelt's statement was that if the Democrats nominated "conser- vative candidates, or lip-service can- didates, on a strad- dlebug platform" he would find it Impossible to take any active part

whole Epirus) and the road east to in the presidential campaign → next Salonika, the old Via Egnatia of the year. For those who enjoy guess-- Romans.

ing games the words have far

Mr. possibilities than

.Col- The Balkan peoples thus realised more that German economic penetration lidge's relatively definite, "I do not was not all that confronted them; choose to run." Being very bold one their very existence was at stake, and might conclude that the President had you have to realise how "beautiful gone one step farther toward barring Janina" is "regarded in the Balkans a Roosevelt-Garner ticket. But not a to understand the symbolism of the Roosevelt-Blank ticket; The really big threat to that city. Nor is it over result of this headlined statement is looked, that most of the new military to add a word to the dictionary of works of the Italians

on the American politics. "Straddlebug" may Greek, not the Yugoslav, frontier. become as historic as “mugwump. "Sydney Morning Herald.”

"Christian Science Monitor.".

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