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...Austria the situation was different last week, for the reason that the Austrian police and gendarmerie were left in charge of Chancellor Schuschnigg's devoted follower, Secretary of State for Public Security Dr. Michael Skubl. Moreover, under Austrian law the only political party which is legal is the Fatherland Front of Kurt von Schuschnigg. The Austrian Nazi Party was not legalized, but Austrian Nazis were told they might join the Fatherland Front whose official leader is Schuschnigg, whose vice-leader, Guido Zernatto, one of the Chancellor's most devoted followers, was given Cabinet rank as Minister Without Portfolio...
...Horse" It has been against Austrian law to shout "Heil Hitler!" for several years. This week Austrian Nazis made themselves purple in the face drifting around Vienna and other Austrian cities in crowds, bellowing hour after hour "HEIL HITLER!" This gave so many Viennese the jitters that all except Fatherland Front demonstrations were ordered stopped by Schuschnigg with Austrian Nazi concurrence, ''to avoid panic...
...Viennese journalists who bustled about Minister of Interior Seyss-Inquart on his return from Berlin, he said: "Because there have been so many misunderstandings. I wish you to say to the whole world that I am no Trojan horse. I do not want the Fatherland Front to become a Nazi Party. I believe in the view that Austria must be an independent, Christian Austria-nothing else but that. Austria will continue on her destined course. No further changes are foreseen now in Austria...
...share this view! Stalin does and openly admits it." (See p. 17.) The Chancellor, having thus pinched the sorest point he could find, devoted a conciliatory part of his speech to announcing that: 1) Germany extends diplomatic recognition to the Empire of Manchukuo and assures Japan that the Fatherland wants no territory in Eastern Asia; 2) Germany has no territorial designs upon France or Spain and is "proud" of the 1934 pact by which Germany and Poland continue to respect each other's rights and interests, "even in Danzig"; 3) as to Austria...
...ever made the motor vehicle and everything connected with it a major plank in his political platform : Adolf Hitler. The Nazis have made almost a national festival out of Berlin's annual Automobile Show. Last week it opened with loud speakers boasting in every corner of the Fatherland that since the Führer took over the Government in 1933 the number of motorcars in Germany has increased from 548,700 to 1,108,500, motor trucks from...