The Archive · 1938

BERLIN REJECTS DEMARCHE NOTES Austrian Moves May Have Gravest Reactions

Berlin, Mar, 12, Germany to-day rejected' the French and British protests over Nazi action in Austria, The communique containing the rejection states:

"The British and French Governments have made _remonstrations, through their Ambassadors, against the pressure alleged to have been exercised by the Reich on developments in Austria, by. which they pointed to certain information they had received from Vienna, "The German Government has rejected these remonstrations as inadmissible and, simultaneously, has corrected the false Information Ju the, hands of the two Govern-Official comment on the British protest to Germany against Nazi faction in Austria is that "it comes twenty years too late.

'The spokesman added, "Why did not Great Britain protest against the disregard of President Wilzon's Fourteen Points which, among' other things, guaranteed the self-determina-ton. of peoples?"

The British protest may have "formal importance" but it. lacks {moral justineation," "he sald.—

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