Dr.' Kurt von Schuschnigg Herr Guido Schmidt, Austrian Chancellor and Foreign Minister, will leave for Budapest today, accompanied by several officials, to attend the tripartite conference of the signatories of the Rome Protocols, which opens to-morrow.
Dr. Coleman de Daranyi, Hungarian Premier, who is at present near Vienna on a holiday, will also return to Budapest for the conference.
Well-informed circles here state that Austria's main aim at the conference will be the reassertion of the Protocols which guarantee Austria's independence.
It will recalled that the Rome-Berlin axis often placed Austria in a delicate situation in the matter of her independence.
These circles also are of the opinion that Italy will understand that Aus-trio and Hungary are unable to adhere to the anti-Comintern pact, despite their ideological community of anti-communist views, and the fact that such a stand was advocated by Herr Schmidt in Geneva during the discussion on the reform of the League Covenant.
It is understood that the Spanish problem will be one of the points discussed at the forthcoming confer-
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