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...British Isles. Both his Propaganda Minister, wry little Paul Joseph Goebbels, and his Deputy Party Leader, hairy Rudolph Hess, warned Britain last week that the blow was coming soon. Dr. Goebbels' foreboding was particularly ominous. All enemies of the Fuhrer are given a last warning, said he: "Bruning, Schuschnigg, Benes, Beck, Daladier and Reynaud all received that warning. Mr. Churchill belongs to that category . . . and Germany only grants him a last respite before the sentence is executed...
...year-old Marshal Pétain after he had heard this news reported that he was calm and serene. But France's Chief of State was going through the same mental and emotional experience that had broken such men as Austria's Kurt von Schuschnigg and Czecho-Slovakia's Eduard Benes. Like them he tried to make little concessions, apparently unwilling to believe that the only concession that ever satisfies Adolf Hitler is capitulation. The old Marshal forced the resignation from his Cabinet of Minister of Justice Raphaël Alibert, one of his closest advisers...
...feast of signatures was spread on a yellow-tapestried table in the Gobelin Hall of old Belvedere Palace, Vienna. In these halls once roared the voice of Eugen of Savoy, one of the Habsburgs' greatest warriors. Here strode Archduke Franz Ferdinand before Sarajevo. Here whispered poor Kurt von Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of independent Austria. Here also the architects of the New Order redrew the designs of Czecho-Slovakia (Nov. 2, 1938) and Rumania...
Arriving in Canada, Hans Rott, onetime Austrian Secretary of State for Labor, mentioned the half-forgotten name of a politician who once tried to double-cross Hitler at his own game: Kurt von Schuschnigg. In a heatless, lightless cell on the top floor of the Gestapo headquarters in Vienna's dingy Metropol Hotel. Austria's last Chancellor, doomed to slow death, is almost blind, according to Rott, as a result of Gestapo torture...
...prevent fleeing refugees from running into advancing Nazi columns. Then at dawn they came, the modern version of Alaric's Visigoths: grimy German warriors in swift, battle-stained tanks and armored reconnaissance motorcycles. They were Austrian soldiers led by General Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, famous quisling in the Schuschnigg Government. Hitler had once promised commiserating Edouard Daladier, "Oh, Daladier, you're going to get to know my Austrians. You're going to make their acquaintance." He was keeping that promise...