Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy advised Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria not to curb the rights of the Jews, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned today from authoritativ esources. Fulvio Suvich, Italian Under Secretary of State, who has visited Vienna twice in the last few weeks, delivered the advice to the Austrian Chancellor.
The Italian Premier is watching the Jewish situation in Austria very closely and instructed Under Secretary Suvich to so inform Chancellor Dollfuss, it is learned.
Dollfuss informed Suvich that the Austrian government contemplates no specific measures against the Jews, a declaration he has repeated frequently since the crushing of the Austrian Socialists. He said, however, that he cannot prevent the government form revising the Austrian constitution and admitted that the proposed revision may affect the Jews.
A censorship was clamped down on news from Vienna today, particularly on references to troop movements or to reports of a Hapsburg restoration in Austria.
Reports Emanating from Vienna suggest that the promulgation of a new constitution proclaiming Austria a Christian statc will take place in the next two weeks. The proposed constitution has been under consideration by a small committee of the Austrian cabinet and will be submitted to the full cabinet within the next few days.
WON’T CONVOKE PARLIAMENT
The Berliner Boersen Zeitung says that the Austrian parliament, dissolved by Dollfuss more than a year ago, will not be convoiced for its formal approval of the new constitution. According to the Boersen Zeitung, Dollfuss himself will approve the document through the emergency decree under which his government is ruling.
All Austria was flooded today with rumors ranging from a restoration of the Hapsburgs in Austria, which the governments of Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia have announced will be regarded as a cause for war, to rumors of heav troop movements on the border and even a rumor of a pact between the Dollfuss and German Nazi governments.
According to rumors cuurent here the agreements betwee the Nazis and the Austrian government will be announced within the Next twenty-four hours.
NEGOTIATIONS UNDER WAY
It is understood that three attempts at negotiations between the German and Austrian government are under way and prospects of success in the negotiations are regarded as excellent. Observers are of the opinion that simultaneous communiques from Berlin and Vienna announcing the end of strife between the two governments may be expected at any moment.
One of the conditions of peace between the Austrian and German governments is said to be the dismissal or transfer of Theodore habicht, Nazi “Inspector General
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