The Archive · 1938

Britain and France Act on Austria

De Facto Recognition in Opening Consulates and Closing Embassies

Berlin, Apr. 2

Two notes in which Britain recog-sizes the Austro-Reich anschluss and announces her intention to install a consulate-general in Vienna, were handed to-day to German Foreign Minister, Herr Joachim von Ribbentrap by Sir Nevile Henderson, Great Britain's Ambassador to Berlin, In the first note, according to the German semi-offücial news agency, the Deutsches Nachrichten Bureau, the British Government reserve the right to communicate at a later date their views on questions risen since the anschluss and in regard to treaties and other conventions. This procedure will take place in due time, In the second note, Britain states that she intends to establish the consulate-general in Vienna on April

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