AUSTRIA: Arbitration Treaty

At Vienna, Chancellor Karl Ramek of Die Republik Osterreich signed an impressive looking document, which was likewise autographed by Dr. Edward Benes, Premier of the Ceskoslovenska Republika.

The purport of this document was highly satisfactory to both men and to the world at large. It provides that all legal disputes which may arise between Austria and Czechoslovakia are to be submitted to an impartial commission chairmaned by an appointee of the Swiss Government. Should this commission fail to resolve the difficulty, then the signatories bind themselves to carry their dispute before the...

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