Foreign Minister Avows Joint Interest of People Vienna, Aug. 21.
Regarding the relations of Austria to Germany and {tuly, the Austrian Foreign Minister, Dr. Guido Schmidt, declared at the opening of the into: national university' holiday summer courses at Traunstein Castle in Salzkammergit, that Austria is a German country which never would conduct a policy contrary to the interests and the happiness of the great German nation.
The general line of the Austrian foreign policy was guided and outlined by the July agreement of 1936 made with the German Reich. On the. basis of this agreement both governments were enabled to serve the interests of both nations and therewith the German inhabitants of both countries, The knowledge of having a true help for Austria's needs a strong inducement for maintaining the friendship with Italy, Dr. Schmidt concluded.—Trans-Ocean,
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