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Suicides. Jailed or jobless was every Jewish journalist as Nazis took over Austrian papers, filled them with glowing reports on the new Anschluss. Carefully kept from the populace was the news that a wave of suicides had swept over once-gay Vienna, until hundreds were reported to have taken their lives rather than Nazification. Burly, raspy-voiced Major Emil Fey, Vice Chancellor under Dollfuss and former Vienna commander of the Heimwehr of Prince Ernest von Starhemberg,* shot his wife, his 19-year-old son, then turned the gun on himself. Ruthless suppressor of the incipient Nazis and Socialist workers alike...
Violently upset last week was this clearinghouse press system. During the first hectic days after anschluss (TIME, March 21) the lid of Nazi censorship was harshly clamped on Vienna's journalists. Telephone calls for foreign correspondents were tapped, mail was watched, teletype communications halted. When Adolf Hitler made his belated Vienna speech, 55 newsmen, the bulk of the foreign corps, were summoned to receive press passes, promptly caged at the point of Nazi guns, allowed to watch the scene only through the Chancellery windows...
Third session: Immediate questions. Larger navy? Sino-Japanese Conflict, German-Austrian Anschluss...
Article LXI of the Weimar Constitution is constructed entirely on the hypothesis that Austria is already German, its mystic words being, "German Austria, after its Anschluss (union) to the German Reich, shall receive the right of voting representation in proportion to its population. Until that time the representatives of German Austria shall have a consulting voice...
Died. Frank Herbert Simonds, 57, newspaper correspondent, editor, author, able U. S. interpreter of European affairs since 1914; of pneumonia; in Washington, D. C. A pessimistic and trenchant writer, he was convinced that the Treaty of Versailles did not end the War, accurately predicted Germany's attempt at anschluss with Austria, the Italo-Ethiopian...