I get from a well-informed Austrian, who writes as a
matter of prudence from outside the country, information which confirms rather strikingly what comes to me from other equally well-informed sources. Austria is by n) means so ready to throw up the sponge as the first reports, or the first assumptions, after the Berchtesgaden conversations suggested. She is facing the situation with spirit and talking calmly but firmly of active resistance to any assaults on her independence. There is, of course, intense anxiety for some sign of moral support from this country, but Austria is quite evidently determined to take its stand on Dr. Schuschnigg's declaration that assimilation may. go " so far but no farther." " I hope," writes my correspondent, " this letter gives you the impression that we are full of enthusiasm and to some extent optimistic about our future." A spirit of gallant and admirable resolve quite evidently
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