Vienna, Feb. 19.
Legitimists, seeing their hopes of a restoration of the Hapsburgs dashed, are expressing unmeasured hostility towards the recent changes in the Austrian Cabinet.
At a meeting of the Imperial League at Innsbruck yesterday. vehement speakers declared that the recent riges had filled them with deep anxiety and mistrust.
They described Herr Arthur Seyss-Inguart, Home Minister and Minister of Public Security in the reconstructed Cabinet, as the "real Chancellor of Austria by the grace of Hitler."
"Only over our dead bodies will Nazis come to Austria" was a remark wildly applauded by the crowded audience.
Excitement among factory workers continues to grow, but there have been no disturbance:
An official announcement, described as completing the list of measures agreed upon at Berchtesgaden between Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, the Austrian Chancellor, and Herr Hitler, states that Austrian Nazis will have an opportunity of pursuing legal activities within the framework of the Fatherland Front and all other Austrian institutions.
Germany, the announcement adds, will take measures to enforce the existing prohibition against interference in Austria's internal affairs A similar communique has been issued at Berlin.
The Austrian Government contemplates no changes in its policy towards the Jews as a result of recent events, the Jewish Telegraph Agency learns to-day from a semiofficial authority.
The source in question is slated to have declared: "Although there may be temptations to act otherwise the Austrian Government rejects, on social and religious grounds, any discrimination against Austrian Jews."—Reuter.
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