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...Baiting. Virtually all Jewish department stores, cafés and shops were taken over by Nazis. Hapless Jews were set to work scrubbing Fatherland Front posters off lampposts, Schuschnigg plebiscite slogans off sidewalks. Leering young Nazis jibed, "Who has found work for Jews? Adolf Hitler!" When Jews timidly protested against over 100 unwarranted seizures of their property by ruffians in Nazi uniforms, Nazi police officials explained that persons carrying on such unauthorized expropriations were "Communists who in some manner had managed to get themselves disguised in Nazi uniforms." The whole stock of two large department stores had been expropriated meanwhile...
...week's end the jails were filled to overflowing. Nazi officials took over the Northwest Railway Station, unused for traffic, converted it into a makeshift concentration camp. Crucifixes on the walls of devout Kurt Schuschnigg's Fatherland Front Headquarters, which had now become Nazi Headquarters, were torn down by Nazis who stuck them up with guffaws in the water closets...
...Nazi Police Chief Heinrich Himmler, who had arrived to take charge of the capital's constabulary. Herr Himmler found the regular Viennese police, already wearing swastika brassards, augmented by roving bands of Hitler Youth and Storm Troops. A great roundup and lockup of Socialists, Communists, labor unionists and Fatherland Fronters. the only legal party under Chancellor Schuschnigg, was instantly begun, and Seyss-Inquart sped to Linz to greet his master, Hitler. Ultimatum-bringer Josef Bürckel stayed in Vienna to reorganize the Austrian Nazi Party and prepare a plebiscite for April...
Possibilities of an English deal with Mussolini or even of English action as a result of yesterday's cabinet developments, and Hitler's new drive to recover political minorities for the fatherland will give the other two committees added fuel...
...FATHERLAND FAREWELL!-Gosta Larsson - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Solid novel about Swedish working-class life before the War, centring on the great emigration to the U. S. Its well-studied hero is an ambitious young engineer who struggles against his lower-class destiny, tries unsuccessfully to escape...