"How fortunate it was that von Papen did not walk behind the bier of the murdered Dollfuss. It would have been unbearable for the hundreds of thousands of mourners to see in the cortege the representative of the regime that is guilty of the death of our beloved Chancellor."
These words in the Vienna Reichspost, newsorgan of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, showed the real feelings of the new Austrian Government which last week finally accepted as persona grata Chancellor Adolf Hitler's new Minister to Austria, Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen.
So far so good, but Minister von...
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