18 MARCH 1938, Page 6

What happened in Austria before last Friday is of little

more than academic interest now ; but since Dr. Schuschnigg has been accused of trying to rig his plebiscite by putting the voting age as high as 24, and so disfranchising tens of thousands of youthful Nazis, it may be worth pointing out that the age limit was fixed, not by Dr. Schuschnigg in 1938 but by an article of the Austrian Constitution, providing that in the case of a national referendum all citizens over 24 may vote Yes or No. It was not the Austrian Chancellor's fault that most Nazis were in their teens or little over.