Austria's Thanks for English Help At the banquet which the members of the National Housing and Town Planning Council, who visited Vienna, gave in honour of the Federal President, Dr. Hainisch, and of the Austrian Housing Congress, Dr. Hainisch expressed his optimism as to the recovery of Austria.
"We should not have got on, however," he declared, "but for the assistance from abroad. And, above all, I must think in this connexion of that great many-sided help, led entirely by humanitarian considerations, which the English people have rendered us. For years, members of the English committee worked their hardest here in The most self-sacrificing way to assist our sick and poor, old aged, and youth: and often I felt overwhelmed at the sight of their unselfish work. I specially refer to the work on behalf of the tuber-culeus, with Mr. Dugan at its head, which has saved the lives of many Austrian children.
"Further, I must not leave unmentioned the financial help England rendered us by granting the first big credit, which enabled us to establish our National Bank: nor must I forget the activity of England, concerning the loan of the League. We have. not only had help from England, but have also learned from her social
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