AUSTRIA: Von Papen Draws Tears

The President of the Assembly of the League of Nations. Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, took in his stride last week the fact that Austrian police had just confiscated an edition of his personal newsorgan, the Prager Presse.

Dr. Benes enjoys the particular friendship of new British Foreign Minister Sir Samuel Hoare and his newsorgan picked up in London a story peculiarly embarrassing to Austria's extremely pious Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg who simply could not let Austrians read it lest he become a national laughing stock.

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