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Part of the supposedly humiliating agreement which Hitler forced on Austria was that Schuschnigg would order Austrian stations to broadcast Hitler's Reichstag speech last fortnight, but the Austrian simultaneously forced the Fiihrer to agree to order German stations to broadcast Schuschnigg's speech last week. The result was that German radio listeners heard the least Nazi political speech broadcast by the big German stations since 1933. Zealous Nazis were wild with rage. Adolf Hitler himself was late for a public appointment because he had lingered by his radio set listening to Kurt von Schuschnigg. Next day scores...
...once in his address did the Austrian Chancellor mention the Fuhrer by name although he referred in eulogistic terms to Benito Mussolini, who originally advised Schuschnigg to go and bargain with Hitler. He firmly announced that the German Government had engaged itself to respect the political and territorial independence of the Austrian State. Then he added, "Austria will stand or fall with her special German mission! Austria has declared herself to be a German State." In words not pleasing to the ears of pagan, Jew-baiting, Communist-hating Nazis, the Chancellor continued: "We are a Christian State, a German State...
Upon emotional, freedom-loving French legislators the words of Orator Schuschnigg had galvanic effect. Everyone was quoting him in the lobbies of the French Chamber next day. His speech was an important factor in swinging the 439-10-2 vote of the Chamber promising that the French Army would help, if necessary, to maintain Austrian independence...
Meantime intrepid Herr Schuschnigg himself presided at a conference of Austrian police authorities. Present was Interior Minister Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, the only Nazi yet forced by the Führer into the Austrian Cabinet. Silent, embarrassed, sat Dr. Seyss-Inquart as Chancellor Schuschnigg ordered the police of Austria to continue the bans against: shouting "Heil Hitler!," appearing in brownshirt Nazi uniform, or holding any sort of political meeting in Austria except those of his Fatherland Front (to which Nazis are now admitted...
Vienna is probably not over 20% Nazi, but in the rural provinces Austrian Nazis run up to as high as 80%. In Graz, the chief city of Lower Austria, adjoining Hungary, the Nazi flag was hoisted above the town hall last week while Schuschnigg was speaking in Vienna. Next day the locally popular Mayor claimed he had resigned before a telegram from the Chancellor demanded he take "a vacation." Graz looked like one big Nazi meeting, with Hitler's picture in every shop whose owner did not want his window smashed, with peddlers selling Nazi lapel buttons, with crowds...