"Complete Agreement"

Hands on hips, chin thrust forward, General Julius Goembs, the heel-clicking Premier of Hungary, faced correspondents in his country's Legation at Rome last week, bright-eyed with satisfaction at ne gotiations which he had just concluded with Premier Mussolini.

The two statesmen exchanged the draft text of an Austro-Hungarian-Italian trade treaty which may prove of utmost impor tance. It is no secret that Il Duce opposes Adolf Hitler's efforts to draw Austria into union with Germany--which would mean that Italy would face on her northern frontier not puny Austria but the potent German Reich. According to the draft text exchanged in Rome last week Italy is ready to agree to increase her purchases from Austria and Hungary and, over a period of years, to buy from them more than they sell to her.

Reticent about the quid pro quo, which will presumably involve the entrance of Austria and Hungary into an Eastern European bloc with Italy and the Little Entente, General Goemboes exclaimed: "My conversations with Premier Mussolini have shown the complete agreement of our views on all questions, political and economic. I am very pleased."

To scrutinize from Vienna's standpoint the trade agreement which General Goemboes brought home from Rome, Austria's alert, diminutive Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss sent his Minister of Commerce, Herr Friedrich Stockinger, hurrying to Budapest.

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