Europe has passed through a fateful week as a result of Chancellor Hitlers coup which has made Austria a state of the Reich. The last few days' newspapers have pictured these developments and have faithfully recorded his-lory, moving not in centuries by in hours. The London newspapers received by the latest mail portray an equally fateful week for Great Britain, at least, and register the impression that the historian in this post-war period of overnight developments is not the man who studies and analyses leisurely mountains of books and diplomatic documents but the daily newspaper which creates out of the mass of hour by hour telegrams the'story of a developing world. February 14 to February 21, taking newspaper publication dates of events the day previously, was a dramatic week. There was Dr. Schuschnigg's visit to Chancellor Hitler and the conference at Berchtesgaden at the beginning of the week and then on the 15th "Austria Yields To Hitler." President Miklas, of Austria, appealed for advice to Signor Mussolini but he was away on a ski-ing expedition. Dr, Seys-Inquart, Nazi Minister of the Interior and Public Security, was reported on the 18th to have conferred with Chancellor Hitler. February 19 reported the British Cabinet meeting which led to Mr. Eden's resignation the following day and on February 21 the complete story was published of one of the gravest splits in the British Cabinet for many years when the Chamberlain-Eden foreign policy went asunder. That represents one week of history three weeks ago and events of the last few days have provided the climax, although the Italian issue was primarily that on which Mr. Eden based his action in resigning from the Cabinet, Newspaper headlines are meant to guide readers to the item they wish to read: in this case they are pointers to historical research.
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