Unrest in Austria Despite denials in Berlin, there can be
no doubt of the unrest and dissatisfaction that have grown up in Austria, and especially in Vienna, since the Anschluss. Reports of reprimands delivered to the Nazi leaders, of secret visits to Vienna by Herr Hitler, may be true or false ; but they are symptomatic of the tension that exists. It was not to be expected that the Anschluss could be effected without friction ; but it is greater, and has come much sooner, than could have been foretold. Yet the difficulties Germany is facing in Austria should not be interpreted as the result of opposition to the new regime ; they are difficulties within the regime itself; and a repetition, necessary and inevitable, of the internal conflicts which in Germany led to the purge of June 3oth, 1934. The men who win a Nazi victory, the Storm Troopers, the extremists, the radicals, are not those who benefit by it ; in Austria, as in Germany, the problem is how to dispose of them once the victory is won. It is not surprising, therefore, that a thousand Storm Troopers are reported to have been sent to the concentration camp at Dachau. The report is denied by Herr Biirckel, the Nazi Commissioner for Austria, but the denial, if deserving of credit at all, may apply only to the number mentioned. The present unrest may quite well find an outlet in renewed and more violent anti-Semitic outrages.
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