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Vigorously denied by Nazi police last week was the report that their No. 1 Prisoner, former Austrian Chancellor Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, is so broken in health that he cannot be brought to trial. Prisoner Schuschnigg is in a "depressed state," the police admitted, but he will be tried in a few months before a special court on the charge of violating the Austrian Constitution. Likely sentence: Exile. "Germany's dignity," soberly cracked the police, would not allow his execution or sentence to a long jail term...
Meanwhile from Paris came the first detailed account of Dr. Schuschnigg's six-month confinement. According to Dr. Martin Fuchs, former Austrian Chargé d'Affaires in Paris and friend of the jailed Chancellor, Dr. Schuschnigg is now held in a tiny bedroom under the eaves of Vienna's Hotel Metropole, a stuffy, ten-foot-square cell containing only a bed, table, chair and a burly Storm Trooper who never leaves the room. "He has altered in appearance terribly. He is emaciated. His eyes are haggard. They will not let him have a razor...
...Schuschnigg is going to be tried by a "blue-ribbon" jury in Vienna. . . . Mr. Stalin has rolled up an admirable record of convictions by the "blue-ribbon" route...
...Viennese workers. "The most important phenomenon but also one which has received the least attention is the power of the Nazis with the workers," wrote Sheean. "The proletariat of Vienna had little reason to love the last two regimes to which it was subjected [those of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg]. The new regime appeals very powerfully to the whole lower middle class and to a great part of the workers. . . . Under the new regime the proletariat has been rapidly absorbed into . . . the Arbeitsfront [labor front...
Last week 50 foreign newsmen flew to Vienna to see for themselves whether "internal trouble" was developing in newly-absorbed Austria. There they questioned their host, hard-boiled Reich Commissioner for Austria Josef Bürckel, about his No. 1 prisoner, Kurt von Schuschnigg, independent Austria's last Chancellor. Information gleaned: Dr. Schuschnigg will be tried for "high treason" the Nazi regime does not recognize marriage by proxy, hence holds that the last Chancellor's reported marriage in June to the Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen, in which the groom was represented by his brother, is not valid...