Pundit Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis), whose first husband was Budapester Josef Bard, wrote last week of the Austrian situation: "Yesterday it looked as though the struggle was over, and the new peace dictated. Today it is still an armistice. Tomorrow? ..."
All who, like Miss Thompson, had quaked with fear lest Nazi Germany had swallowed Austria, were last week highly delighted to hear Austria in the person of Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg talking back to Adolf Hitler. Through a cheering crowd of 40,000 Viennese, Schuschnigg drove to the Austrian Diet to deliver...
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