Austria and the Nazis - A dangerous situation may well
arise in Austria if the intention of various German Ministers to attend a Nazi demonstration in Vienna on Sunday is carried out. The Austrian Government is still fighting a hard battle against the tide of National Socialism, and with the greater part of the Heimwehr (or Austrian Fascists) on its side is so far holding its own. Vienna, of course, is predominantly Socialist and anti-Nazi, and the results of anything so provocative as the irruption of German Nazi Ministers can hardly fail to provoke a serious disturbance, which in its turn might produce international complications. It is part of the Nazi faith that all Germans everywhere are one, even though they may be politically severed for the moment, and that therefore any German is perfectly entitled to go where he will and say what he likes in any German- speaking territory. In the present state of feeling that is manifestly a dangerous doctrine.
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