AUSTRIA: Rearmament with Habsburg

Adolf Hitler's treaty-wrecking example boomed down the Danube last week and emboldened Handsome Adolf's native land to rearm too. Little Austria's "defy" to the Powers that defeated Imperial Austria was however, a discreet and muted echo of big Germany's. Timidly Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg whose grip on congested Austrian politics is steadily growing limper, announced: "The Cabinet Council expressed the unanimous conception that the granting to Austria of full equality was a self-evident supposition." In a firmer tone he removed Austrian rearmament from the realm of supposition by adding: "The necessary procedure...

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