The Archive · 1938

Further Conversations

SPECIAL TO THE "N.C.D.N."

Vienna, Feb. 12.

Following the unexpected meeting at Berchtesgaden yesterday the probability of further Austro-German conversations to thrash out the many questions left unsettled by the Berchtesgaden interview is envisaged in official circles here.

This might mean another meeting between the two Chancellors, or the long-mooted visited of General Hermann Goering, right-hand man of Herr Hitler, to Austria, or negotiations through the normal diplomatic channels.

Reuter learns from a well-informed non-official quarter that the Fuehrer may be prepared for the Reich Government and the Nazi Party to dissociate themselves from illegal Nazis in Austria and solemnly to repeat the promise to respect the independence is the Reichstag on y 20 in return for the "pacification" Austria.

Under this "pacification," Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg would be expecter to take men of Nazi sympathies but enjoying his personal confidence into various state legislative organization such as the State Council. though na into the Government.

An attempt would also be made to improve, by mutual concessions, the unsatisfactory state of Austro-German trade due to the accumulation of frozen credits in the Austrian commercial account in Berlin.—Reuter.

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