Withdrawal of Support from Austria Plays Nazis’ Game, Times Writer Holds

Mrs. Anne O’Hare McCormick, New York Times correspondent, warned in a Vienna dispatch today that withdrawal of support from Austria, through a boycott and through gestures like Arturo Toscanini’s cancellation of his Salzburg engagement, might “throw this trembling country into the arms of Germany.”

“Outsiders should remember that in a country where the division is so close compromise is a stark necessity,” the dispatch said. “If Austria is to be saved it is not by forgetting this. It is not by gestures like that of Arturo Toscanini, withdrawing support just at the moment when it is most needed. It is not by putting this hard pressed country, straining its spent forces to stand alone, under the same boycott as Germany’s. That this is happening, at least in the United States, appears in telegrams pouring in at the Foreign Office from Austrian consulates in America and from cancellations of orders for Austrian goods, received daily by exporters here. No action is better calculated to play the Nazi game and throw this trembling country into the arms of Germany.”