Germany's Foreknowledge The most revealing evidence so far available of
Germany's attitude towards the Austrian outrages is the statement' circulated, and then withdrawn, by the Deutsches Nachrichtenbfiro, the official German agency, on the evening of July 26th, the day of Dr. Dollfuss' murder, and reproduced in The Times of last Monday. A few sentences indicate its tenor sufficiently : "The people have risen to judge the Government of Doll/uss. The German people in Austria have revolted against their gaolers. torturers and oppressors. . . . The triumph over the Government of Dollfuss is being hailed by Germanism. . . . The new Govern- ment will see to it that order is restored and that Pan-Germanism is given a home also in German-Austria."
It would be too much to say that this actually proves complicity, but the last sentence betrays a considerable knowledge, if not a guilty knowledge, of "the new Government's" intentions. That the statement was withdrawn after half an hour's currency 'means only that the disastrous results of circulating it Were appreciated when the truth about the revolution and its fate was known.
