London, July 29.
impossible to write within so few days of the event without allud~ ing to the deep shock which the murder of Dr. Dollfuss has been lasses in this country.
The kindly feeling between Eng: land and Austria is of long standing. During the South African War, Austria was alone among the great Continental Powers in not indulging violent anglophobia. King Jand Emperor Francis-Joselt were lose friends. In the late War we never had any animosity against Aus-trio, whom we believed to have been Jacqgied at Germany's heels. The contrast between the colossal personality and tiny body of Chancellor Dollfuss appealed to everyone's combined admiration and sense humour, and paved the way for him to become easily the most popular figure at the World Economic Conference in London last year.
Tt ig reported that Dr. Dollfuss bad lveen receiving scores of threats by every post for a month past. He knew well that the Nazis, conscious lof losing hold in Germany, were preparing for a desperate stroke in Austria. "He, therefore, sent his wife Jand children away to safety in Italy. But not for anything would he have [deserted his post.
The somewhat pharisaical outbursts lot some speakers and writers here strike one as, to put it mildly, unnecassary. A Master of a famous col-Togo, dispensing prizes on a speech Jéay, is happy to think that our school system makes such explosions impossible in England. A Cabinet Minister declares that Britian is the one solid rock in a reeling world.
Touche: ex bois. One may moralize on the hopeless unworkabilof republics, og illustrated all over the world. Bat our own new social system, founded on the dole and amusement as the chief aim of life, still too new for prediction as to how it would turn out in a crisis.
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