AUSTRIA: Streeruwitz

"United We Stand'' would not do as a motto for Austria. In fact, during the cabinet crisis of 36 days which ended last week, the four principal parties in the republic battled each other to a standstill so often that it seemed almost time to hang up the D. W. F. sign−"Divided We Fall." Almost every day War Minister Karl Vaugoin stormed that the republic ought to fall, repeatedly demanded proclamation of a dictatorship.

Finally last week the exhausted politicians arranged for parliament to elect as chancellor no one of their number, but a...

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