Back in Vienna last week was spectacled, modest Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg carrying, from his head-to-head with Benito Mussolini at Venice, nothing more tangible than a rueful expression (TIME, May 3). To let off steam Chancellor Schuschnigg promptly ordered the arrest of 20 "provocative" Nazis, announced truculently that "there will be no coalition with Nazis in Austria." Thus he shrugged off the Italian suggestion that Austria's Nazis should be represented in the Fatherland Front, Chancellor Schuschnigg's party.
Back in Rome was Mussolini preparing a brotherly welcome for Nazi Air Minister Colonel-General...
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