25 MARCH 1938, Page 58

Death of Austria It matters little where you let it

take you on your spring- running, so long as you start carefree. There are Scotland and Ireland, all those corners of England you have only read of and never seen ; the rivers and mountains and ancient towns of France ; the Italian shore of the Mediterranean ; Switzer- land. All places eminently suitable for tracking the first footprints of early summer, all comfortably within the com- pass of a fortnight's cruise. Only one, and the greatest of them all, is no longer there. • Nobody will ever drive to Austria again. So far as this motorist is concerned, no news was ever blacker. It is the greatest disaster.