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Vienna as Headquarters of the New League

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1945

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References

1 Chap. VI, Sec. D, par. 1.

2 Botschaft des Schweizerischen Bundesrates betreffen den Beitritt zum Völkerbund,October 4, 1919 (Schweizerisches Bundesblatt,1919, Vol. IV, pp. 609-610).

3 Vienna as the Capital for Peace,by Dorothy Thompson, November 22, 1944; Miss Thompson goes so far as to propose that the whole Republic of Austria be made a World District of Columbia. See also Editorial “A Capital for a New League,” New York Times,December 15, 1944, p. 118.

4 New York Times,Dec. 14, 1944, pp. 1, 5.

5 Herbert Wright, “Attitude of the United States toward Austria,” United States Congressional Documents, House Document 477, 78th Cong., 2nd Sess.,and “The Legality of the Annexation of Austria by Germany,” this Journal, Vol. 38 (1944), pp. 621-635.

6 In his beautiful “Speech on Austria” the Austrian poet Anton Wildgans put forward in poetic formulation and with deep feeling the two outstanding merits of Austria and Vienna: a great tradition of culture and the coming into being of a new human type: the Austrian man, German by language, but European by history, tradition, culture and temper. (Anton Wildgans, Rede über Osterreich,Vienna, 1930.)

7 La condition Internationale de I'Autriche,Paris, 1935, p. 10.

8 Hast Du vom Kahlenberg dir rings das Land besehn, So wirst du, was ich bin und was ich schrieb, verstehn.Franz Gbillparzer.