2 SEPTEMBER 1922, Page 1

The situation of Austria grows more and more acute. But

the pressure of desperate necessity does seem to have forced the Governments of some of her neighbours out of their attitude of cynical lassitude. Indeed, the fact that Dr. Seipel, the Austrian Chancellor, has turned away in despair from the " Great " Powers to seek help from the little and new States round her and from Italy, and seems to be receiving real assistance from them, should make us realize to what a pitch of degradation French Chauvinism and British vacillation have brought the policy of the Entente.