"I suppose
I'm fussy..
. but I don't see
why, at my age,
should put up
I
with
second-best... For
instance, I'm fond of the theatre;
but, believe me, I'd rather stay away
than see an indifferent play.
•
So that's why, when you offered me whisky, I asked you to make mine a White
Horse. I daresay some men hold that one Scotch whisky is as good as another. Well, when they know as much about it as I do, they will think differently."
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Whisky
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The Background Of The Tragedy Of Central
THE TRUE STORY
HITLER-SCHUSCHN
N February 10th, a brilliantly attended ball was given by the Patriotic Front at the Hofburg at Vienna. Schuschnigg's expression was serious even for him, but he felt neither as discouraged nor as preoccupied as had appeared to be the case a few months before. He
As Told By Chancellor Schuschnigg
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was
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mats present, especially with those of the Western Powers, finally in- forming them-more or less as an after-thought-that his Secretary of State, Guido Schmidt, would have to important communication By Sunday evening therefore, the absence make to them the afternoon of the people in Vienna and other capitals as to the int next day. This communication-an- were somewhat impatient for news, and Schusch nouncing that the Chancellor would but in no wise alarmed. But the terest may pe pay a personal visit to Hitler on prolonged absence of official infor- relation of t February 12th at Berchtesgaden- mation on the subject and results to the hea
made to the foreign repre- of the interview began to provoke Government sentatives.
some: uneasiness. It was not before persons to w late in the evening of Sunday that details of thi The point was, they were told, to the truth began to be known. Those Austrian dest dispel the misunderstandings which few who had seen the Chancellor had lately rendered very difficult the after the meeting had shown signs application of the July agreement of intense emotion. He had seemed chnigg alone and of the pacification agreement. absolutely petrified, deeply afflicted, nervous and
wounded in his personal dignity, most discour with that set and impotent twist of and Schusch the lips that told its story of one tary, some me who sees no further issue from a suite, Ribbe desperate situation.
Hitler to Schuschnigg: I wish to found an Em- pire of 80 million souls.
Hitler rece
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After his return to Vienna, the chnigg that head of the Austrian Government, and not a de Ambassador von Papen had furnish- secluded himself for several hours, tesy was res ed reassuring explanations. The He refused to see anyone, not even that he had Austrian Government had no reason his most intimate friends. Secre- a seat, Durin for anxiety, the fact being that the tary of State Schmidt, who had also literally prev meeting was being held subject to seemed profoundly affected, had saying a wor the
express condition that the also disappeared. On Sunday after a flood of co sovereignty and the independence noon, Schuschnigg had gone to see and protests. of Austria, recognised by the agree- President Miklas. Those two men, ment of July 11th, should not come on whom Austria's destinies up for rediscussion.
de-
pended, conversed in secret "for several hours, They remained silent The high officials of the Ball-
as the grave as to the object of hausplatz and of the Press Depart their conference. On Monday morn- ment of the Chancellery, who saw ing, the Chancellor started upon an the Chancellor in the morning of endless series of political conver February 12th, before his departure sations with his colleagues, with for Berchtesgaden, found him a Burgomaster Schmidt, with the Pre- little nervous, but in a comparative sident of the State, with the leader ly good humour and very sure of of the Agrarian Party, Reither, the himself. He left with the feeling of high officials of the Ballhausplatz marching to victory, and, deter- and the Italian Minister. mined not to allow any concession
to be wrested from him exceeding In Vienna, in Austria, in the the scope of the July agreement, whole world, the news spread like either by the eloquence of the a train of gunpowder. Schuschnigg Fuehrer or by disguised threats or had brought back a German ulti- by any other means of pressure. matum; the interview with Hitler This confidence was shared by his had been stormy and completely de- collaborators, by all official organi- void of any diplomatic reticence. At sations and, following their example, the same time, information was re- by the foreign diplomats and the representatives of the Press.
ceived of the movements of the Ger- man troops on the Bavarian fron- tier.
The communique, of no interest
Monday afternoon, Secretary of whatever, which was distributed in
State Schmidt summoned the the evening of the historic day and
French and British representatives only mentioned the actual fact of
to his office and informed them of the interview, strengthened the im-
the German desiderata. He tried to pression that nothing new had oc- avoid describing the real aspect of curred and that the Federal Chan the situation. It was, he said, very cellor had made no concession to the
serious, in fact, very alarming, but Reich incompatible with the agree ment. The Sunday papers of Berlin for the moment there was no reason to fear the worst. It has, in any and Vienna were extremely reserved and obviously possessed no definite case, been possible to safeguard the information; the British and French principle of the July agreement, the Press suggested that Schuschnigg recognition of Austrian indepen- dence by the Reich: Concessions had maintained a very firm attitude
would obviously have to be made in and even that he had carried off:
the interest of internal peace, and the victory. The Austrian repre for this, the Austrian cabinet would sentatives abroad had received in- have to be reorganised, Estructions not to ascribe. an excep.
|tional importance to the meeting It was not clear from the explana- and to speak of it as of a very nor- tions of the Secretary of State whe mal consequence of the policy in ther or not a German ultimatum had (augurated in July,
**been issued. But the little they
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