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Time & again Britain & France in the years after the War blocked such a plebiscite, unquestionably because London and Paris believed the result would be favorable to Berlin. By a supreme irony last week, Chancellor Schuschnigg had so succeeded in stirring up Austrian Christian backing for himself and resentment against the Nazi pagans that in Berlin, probably for the first time in Adolf Hitler's life, it entered the Führer's head that the plebiscite just possibly might not go pro-German...
...shock, the terrific impact of this realization upon mystic, intuitive Dictator Hitler produced one of those instantaneous and, as Nazis say, "inspired" decisions which the Führer now & then makes: MOBILIZATION! Once aroused, potent Herr Hitler, with Teutonic ruthlessness, simply smashed brave, resourceful but basically impotent Dr. Schuschnigg. Crunch!-the heavy-handed German Chancellor dispatched from Berlin Schuschnigg's Minister Without Portfolio Edmund Glaise-Horstenau to demand within five hours a decree by the Austrian Government "indefinitely postponing" the plebiscite. This Chancellor Schuschnigg and Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas, who had just come from the pleasanter business of entertaining...
...Friday, Dr. Schuschnigg went on the air so hurriedly that he was not even introduced. Who knew when Nazi gangs might seize the Austrian Federal Radio? Listeners could only tell by his voice and the context that it was their Chancellor speaking...
...President has asked me to tell the people of Austria that he has yielded only to force!" continued Dr. Schuschnigg. "Because we are unwilling, even in this terrible situation, to permit at any price the shedding of streams of German blood,* we have ordered Austria's armed forces to withdraw without resistance, in the event that an invasion is carried out. . . . And so I take leave of the Austrian people with a German word of farewell which I utter from the depths of my heart: Gott schuetze Oesterreich [GOD PROTECT AUSTRIA...
...resigned? It later appeared that the President spent most of the evening attempting to convince Dr. Schuschnigg that he ought to remain Chancellor-and, inferentially, fight. Possibly there are times when not to fight-especially when all concerned are of "German blood"-is the wise, courageous course. Certainly Kurt von Schuschnigg had personally nothing to gain by a submission to the Nazis. On the contrary, he could justly fear to be butchered as was Dollfuss, fight or no fight...