Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg today warned all pro-German organizations, that their “inopportune” activities will not be tolerated in Austria, the Havas News Agency reported.
Speaking to 1,500 regional patriotic front leaders gathered in the main hall of the former Reichsrat, he also advised Monarchists, advocating the return of Archduke Otto to the Hapsburg throne, against any “premature action.”
Chancellor Schuschnigg’s speech climaxed the bitter feud which has developed between “pronounced Nationalists” or pro-Germans and Austrian Monarchists in recent weeks.
Among the developments which brought the situation to a head were an article in the Nazi newspaper Der Angriff, published in Berlin, and a speech by German propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels against an Austrian restoration, considered here as intolerable German interference in Austrian domestic policies, and resumption of activities by pro-German elements who, disguised as “pronounced Nationals,” attempted to create a series of “cultural” organizations.
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