Prince Starhemberg's Austria Austria may expect considerable advantages from the
success of Dr. Schuschnigg's visit to Prague. She cannot, unfortunately, expect much from the internal policy announced by Prince Starhemberg at the meeting of the Patriotic Front in Vienna on Sunday. The Heim- wehr leader declared that the history of Austria was indissolubly connected with the history.of the Hapsburgs,- promised that the connexion should be restored, and named " Kaiser Otto," as the proper person to restore it. Equally firmly he promised that there should be- no restoration of political liberty. Austria is an authoritarian State, in which the Patriotic Front shall perform the functions assigned to the Party in other dictatorships ; no- other political party - is to exist ; only members of the Patriotic Front may be employed, even in the humblest capacity, by the State. It is not surprising that Prince Starhemberg's announcement was preceded, and has been followed, by a revival of, National Socialist activity in Austria, and he has done much to make it successful. But, fortunately, his power seems to have declined recently. Not he, but Dr. Schuschnigg and the Clerical Socialists, lead the Patriotic Front, whose monopoly of political activity may even mean the end of the Heimwehr as an independent political organisation. * * * *
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