PAST FOLLIES
COMMENT ON AUSTRIAN SITUATION. Our past follies have come home to roost, says “Scrutator,” writing in the “Sunday Times,” London, on developments in Austria. If we had wanted to make a barrier to German expansion on the south, we should never have dismembered Austria. The old empire had to go, and was rapidly breaking up before the war, but a federal union of its component parts would have made a solid obstacle, and could not have been broken down by political chicane. If. again, we had decided to dismember it, it was folly to prohibit future union, political and, still more, economic. We thereby made of some' dozen hilly cantons, which were all that was left of Austria, an un-redeem-ed Germany, inhabited exclusively by Germans, poverty-stricken and discontented. and of Vienna a capital without provinces. It was inevitable that there should be trouble.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1938, Page 10
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145PAST FOLLIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1938, Page 10
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