Messersmith, G.S., Vienna. Despatch No. 707 to Secretary of State [Cordell Hull], Washington.
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Austria's internal situation remains quiet, but diplomatic activity in various capitals, centering around Austria, has been intense; Czechoslovak Prime Minister, [Milan] Hodza trying to further Central European cooperation; negotiations on Austrian Czechoslovakian trade treaty making progress, but slowly; Germany sent peremptory note to Prague demanding that any Austro-Czech agreement should not discriminate against German interests; Italy too informed Prague government that it assumed such an agreement would mean that Czechoslovakia would abandon the sanctions against Italy in which it has been participating; Foreign Minister [Egon] Berger-Waldenegg left Feb. 19 for holiday in Florence; visit apparently has no political implications, though there are rumors to the contrary; relations between Austria and Yugoslavia strained; Yugoslavia wants firm pledge from Austria that monarchy will never be restored, but Austria unwilling to make such pledge; Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs [Dr. Tevfik Rüstii Aras] traveling from capital to capital in interest of greater rapprochement of Southeast European states.