London, Mar. 18.
The Vienna correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" has been expelled from Austria by the Gestapo, German secret police, which gave no explanation for the action. The correspondent had been in Vienna for the last thirteen years—Havas. plebiscite were heard. "They appeared to us as utterly incredible, Herr Hitler said.
Continuing, the German Chancellor described the elections in Austria as a "great swindle.
"Second & Avoided Dr. Schuschnigg knew full well that he had only a minority population to back him up. It I had mot acted immediately, Austria might have had the same fate as Spain.
"I prevented a terrible nightmare. I pursued a great aim and led my home country to Germany. Or. Schuschnigg did not believe that I could intervene, but he and his supporters can thank God that I did because my prompt action has saved the lives of tens of thousands of Austrians.
Herr Hitler declared that "behind my decision stand 75,000,000 people and before it stands the German Army."
It was regrettable, he went on, that the democracies failed to understand this development. Their reaction was unintelligible and insulting.
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