ABSTRACT
The formation of a unified state seems to the cabinet to be impracticable for Austria, and undesirable for Germany. There is no point in trying to reply that it is not a unified state which is being aimed at, or that we are dealing here with a federation. It is impossible to let such a statement and designation pass by undisputed. The majority of the National Assembly has declared itself in favour of the programme outlined by Minister von Gagern. The exclusion of the German provinces of Austria in other words a truncation of Germany, so closely interwoven and intimately bound together, so that from then on only thin threads of personal union would hold them together; these are the two end results, to which Germany and Austria would be driven with compelling logic by the foundation of this so called federation, which is anything but a federation.
