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...fortunate it was that von Papen did not walk behind the bier of the murdered Dollfuss. It would have been unbearable for the hundreds of thousands of mourners to see in the cortege the representative of the regime that is guilty of the death of our beloved Chancellor...
These words in the Vienna Reichspost, newsorgan of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, showed the real feelings of the new Austrian Government which last week finally accepted as persona grata Chancellor Adolf Hitler's new Minister to Austria, Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen...
...good, but Minister von Papen did not go to Vienna last week. He was said to be insisting that his presence in Austria would be worse than useless so long as Germany supported the so-called "Austrian Legion" of Nazis who have escaped from Austria but intend to dash back for a coup at the first favorable moment. For days von Papen was reported bickering with Hitler over the Legion. Then the big guns of the German Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment fired a salvo of announcements that the Austrian Legion had been dissolved, added touching details...
Dallying in Berlin last week Minister von Papen sought to jack up his personal kudos by letting it be known that his appointment bears "the last signature of the sainted Feldmarschall von Hindenburg." This announcement he closed with a "Heil Hitler...
Glad to leave blood-purged Berlin, where he nearly became a "suicide" month ago, Franz von Papen packed up in haste for Vienna where the Austrian Government had by no means decided to accept him as persona grata. Ignorant or careless of diplomacy's rigid code, Chancellor Hitler had committed the unheard of blunder of dispatching an envoy without the prior consent of the nation to which he is accredited. This left Austria free to administer a stinging snub which would make Adolf Hitler the laughing stock of Europe. In Vienna it was said that Benito Mussolini was strongly urging...