Foreign News: Mystery Trip

Chancellor Marx and Foreign Minister Stresemann journeyed in a fast train to Vienna one night last week. No one was told why they went. They called on Austrian Chancellor Seipel, returned to Berlin. And no one was the wiser.

Finally a Vienna newspaper spoke in effect as follows: "You came to ask Mgr. Seipel's advice about putting German finances under League control as Austria did. Mgr. Seipel advised you to do so. Don't!"

Only a few days previous, Dr. Zimmerman, League financial administrator of Austria, had declared that the League could restore Germany to...

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