"Owing to th procedure of the Federal Chancellor, the situation in Austria came to an extremely critical point, and a Cabinet crisis developed, The formation of a new government followed, It is not true that Germany exacted a. reformation of the government, or sent an ulti-datum to the former Austrian Government. This measure was, on the contrary, demanded by those parts of the Austrian people and of the Cabinet, which were to be deprived of their rights by Dr. Schuschnigg "It m the new Austrian Federal Chancellor himself who requested the German Government to place at his disposal military and police forces for maintaining peace and order. In face of the impending danger of a civil war in Austria, the German Government decided to respond to this request.
For this reason, the protests lodged by the British and French Governments with Germany have been rejected as unfounded, "The leading German officials t to Austria, especially the Chancellor, as well as the German troops, have been welcomed with jubilation by the whole Aus-strain population, since the popula-t part of the German people connected with the Germans in the Reich by a common history of more than a thousand years.—Trhans-Ocean.
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