Berlin, April 5.
In the course of an article published by. the Democratic "Berliner Boersen-Courier" Mr. Winston Churchill puts the pertinent question why' European diplomacy should have felt such deep em fon the receipt of the news of the proposed Austro-German customs. pact. He points out that we have fall been complaining that the exi ing tariff barriers are such a great obstacle to European reconstruction, yet here is one of these barriers be demolished and there inmediately follows an outery against those Who are attempting to start the much-demanded work in a practical way. The French Foreign Minister, Mr, Briand, he states, is "working for a greater European union and {for the removal of the present chaos by establishing the United States of Europe and here we have Germany. and Austria working might this direction. - 'The English statesman sums ws' by expressing the belief that Germany and" Austria their customs union which will work Jout to the benefit, of European peace—Transocean Kuo Bun,
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