Vienna, Mar. 13. ANOTHER week-end coup by Herr Hitler, which has torn yet one more page of the Treaty of Versailles to ribbons, has succeeded and no-one has lifted a finger to say him nay. That at least is how the events of the last 48 hours are regarded here.
Tt was believed at first that either Britain or France, or even Britain and France, would "do something about it," but it is now obvious they intend to do nothing more than register their protests. They appeared to have counted on Italy to help them, assis shown by the news received here to the effect that France had called on Italy to "take action to restore the independence of Austri When Italy firmly declined, they decided they could do nothing.
Apparently Inspired messages reaching here from Paris state, how-fever, that this Is the last step that Germany will be allowed to take Europe with impunity and that. talks regarding the action of Britain, France and Soviet Russia in the event of Czechoslovakia being attacked next} fare being actively pursued in both Paris and London, For a moment, if seemed that 'Austria herself might do something save herself from being "adopted", but this was not to be. German in' fantry, cavalry, mechanized units and aeroplanes' poured over the frontier to all strategic positions, and what resisting elements there were in Austela ready to stop the country's *Nazifieation" saw themselves con~ fronted with an overwhelming force.
It Ig even doubt(ul, though, whether these elements would ever have done
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