A sensation was created today in European diplomatic circles when it became known that Chancellor Adolf Hitler had appointed Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, who was virtually ousted from the German cabinet by the blood purge of June 30, as special Minister to Austria with the avowed purpose of solving the almost insurmountable obstacles to peace between Germany and Austria.
While Austria is seething with civil war and the desperate Austrian Nazis battle madly for power, and while the rest of Europe is at one in blaming Nazi Germany and particularly Hitler for the
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