Resumption of Nazi activity in Austria on a grand scale in direct violation of the Austro-German “integrity” treaty is causing Austrian officials graves concern, reports said here tonight, according to the Havas News Agency.
Austrian Nazis have banded together in an illegal political party, despite their categoric stipulations in the recent accord to the effect that Austria’s political independence would be scrupulously respected, prominent Austrian leaders indicated.
Among them are many magistrates who declare the courts have recently been invaded by a new wave of political trials arising from charges against Nazi leaders.
The only difference which the Austro-German accord has made, these magistrates severally assert, is that heretofore the Austrian Nazi party was a political dependent of the German Nazi Party. Now, they say, the Austrian Nazi Party has constituted itself into an organization whose goal is to take over the entire Austrian state on a spacious program camouflaged under a “patriotic front.”
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