Vienna, Feb. 25.
The independence of Austria was emphatically reamirmed by Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, the Austrian Chancellor, in his eagerly-awalted speech in the Parliament building yesterday.
Dr. Schuschnigg said the Govern: ment regarded {tas a frst and unquestionable duty to maintain intact with all its strength the freedom and Independence of the Fatherland.
The German-Austrian wanted ty serve the German people as a good German, he declared, and, as a loyal Austrian, to ce-operate in the con-mon destiny of all Germans, but within Austria's own frontier, The new Government, the Chancellor proceeded, aimed, "without party ties, at combining all political tendencies under an authoritative
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