AUSTRIA’S STATUS
TO BE PERPETUALLY NEUTRAL. FRANCE’S STARTLING MOVE. (United Press Association—By Electric .; ■ Telegraph—Copyright) " LONDON, Jan. 18. The . “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic cor respondent • says: —The French Government have made a startling move on the diplomatic., chessboard in connection with the. international status oi ■Austria. France proposes that Austria, like Switzerland, shall he recog"lilyed by. the Powers as perpetually •neutral, this being guaranteed, if P os ~ by the League of Nations. >‘ (, Se(Tet pourparlers on the subject aie: now proceeding with a view to averting, the, dreaded political union of Germany and Austria, or the economic union of. Austria and Italy. The “Daily Telegraph” points out that Austria, unlike Switzerland, it not self-contained economically, and possesses no easily defensible strategic frontiers. It : says it is unlikely that Italy and Germany will asqniesce m tlie plan, which even realisticallyminded French statesmen regard as Utopian. ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1933, Page 6
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141AUSTRIA’S STATUS Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1933, Page 6
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