Inspiration v. Menace

Austria's little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss last week fought on, lone effective champion against seeping German Naziism whose cells are sprouting not only in Austria, but Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the German minorities of Jugoslavia and Rumania. To his aid unintentionally came Germany's Adolf Hitler. Affronted by Dollfuss' slap last fortnight to Nazi Envoy Hans Frank. Hitler countered last week with a 1,000-mark ($272.50) visa charge for Germans visiting Austria. This was a $3,000,000 slap to Austria's tourist business. But it squelched patriotic Austrians who have wanted a Middle European combine (an-schluss), far more effectively than Chancellor Dollfuss had been able to do. Last week Dollfuss. primed to slap back with a tariff wall against German goods, held his hand, called a Cabinet meeting. Last year Austria bought 32,000,000 more from Germany than it sold.

Sticking out his small square jaw, Dollfuss last, week took pains to tell New York Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall that he planned to fight to the finish against both "brown Bolshevism and red Bolshevism. ... A curious and impressive result of the Hitlerite propaganda here has been to awaken a distinctive Austrian national spirit. . . . Every time the word 'Austria' is mentioned it now evokes a cheer. . . . We would like Austria to exist as an object lesson to the world of German culture . . . that is not a menace but an inspiration."

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