French political circles were today discussing the possibility of an internatiaonal army being mobilized to defend Austria’s independence.
Conversation among the governments in Rome, London and Paris were suggested in order to prepare for th possible offer of army units through the League of nations of the Austrian government asks for them.
Senator Henri Berenger, chariman of the Senate committee on Foreign Relations, wroting in the Agence Economique et Financlere, insists that France, Italy and England “must protect Vienna without the loss of a minute by force of international arms of need be.”
“If not,” he said, “it is the end of the League and the beginning of a Eropean war.
“Concerted international occupation of Vienna, if it becomes indispensable, should take the form of an international army put at the disposal of the Austrian government.” Senator Berenger urged.
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