Quiet in Austria Austria, after its ordeal, has returned rapidly
to normal conditions, and the fact that the Chancellor, Dr. Schusch- nigg, is about to pay a visit to Hungary demonstrates a certain confidence in the stability of the situation. Apart from the progress of the treason trials, which are resulting in very few capital sentences, the only event of importance is- the decision of the Cabinet to give its approval to the appointment of Herr von Papen as German Minister. It could hardly have done otherwise, though the delay in signifying the agrement is demonstration of the lack of enthusiasm with which the prospect of the new envoy's advent is received. Herr von Papen has obviously been sent to Viennnto get him out of the way, and the Austrian Cabinet has n6 reason to believe that he any longer enjoys sufficient influence in his own country—particularly after the death of President Hindenburg, who was his personal friend—to make any conciliatory efforts he may exert effective. Responsibility for conciliation rests with the Reichsfuhrer alone, and it has to be noted that the tone of the German Press is still strongly anti-Austrian, that the anti-Austrian broadcasts from Munich have recom- menced, and that the thousand-mark tax on would-be German tourists in Austria has not been withdrawn.
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