Austrian Monarchists were to-day urged by their leaders to support Chancellor Adolf Hitler and to vote favourably on April 10 plebiscite on Austro-German anschluss, it was reported here.
Herr Gustav Martinides, a staunch Monarchist, was reported to have appealed to followers of the so-called "Kaiser Royal Fojk Movement" to vote in favour of the anschluss. The "Wiener Neueste Nachrichten," Vienna's Pan-German and anti-Semitic journal, said to-day that Herr Martinies claimed Archduke Otto, pretender to the Austrian throne, had recognized the Austrian Republic on December 11, 1937, and thus ended any oath of allegiance Monarchists had taken to the Archduke previously.
Nazi and Catholic circles predicted an early reconciliation between the Vatican and Germany as a result of
by certain Catholic quafters—United strong support given its anschluss Press.
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