For some unknown reason all for-ign Journalists who went to the Fors dim OMice, us requested ast night, {0 obtain permits to report the ception were. detained. couraged "by the presence vot "high _lhen they atempied to teave, Austrian stof affeers, including we Generals, "they were' ordered back Angely "by" German sentry, who site "1 have. order shoot me mediately ifthe sales nek ately tthe sti humiliated, but ail'compited with the The Austrian omtcers seemed most The journalists were released 1040. am, GMT, following an hour's "detention, and. 40" minutes after Here Hitler had arrived for the "So-Called Independence"
In the course of his address to-day the Fuehrer said that the importance of the change in the German community of the last few days could only be gauged by future generations, The leader of the Legitimists, he declared, had laid down in a memor= andum that their aim was the so-called independence of Austria, which was then dependent on foreign money, in order to prevent the formation of a greater Reich and so bar the way to the future.
After proclaiming "the new mission of the eastern province," Herr Hitler thanked all who had assisted to a complish the change, primarily Di Arthur Seys-Inquart and Party Jeaders, "and. innumerable party members who had shown that Germans, under pressure, only became hardened."
The Fuehrer also thanked Austria for its wonderful order and discipline.
"This is," he concluded, "the great~ est hour of my life as 'Leader and 'Chancellor of the German' people."
Herr Hitler was introduced to the crowd by Dr. Seys-Inquart, who on his appointment. as Reichstatthalter ceases to be Chancellor and who described himself to the Puchrer as "the Inst highest functionary of old "report to the Fuhrer as Reich schaneellor that Austria is a land of the German Reich," declared Dr. Seys-Inquart, and then addressing Herr Hitler he said:
"The strength of the whole German nation is concentrated in your will. My Fuehrer, we bring to you love and loyalty," and wherever you may Tead we will follow.
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