It was nothing one could see, nothing one could read, but suddenly tension throughout Austria relaxed last week. War clouds that have hung so black for so long rolled back a little. There was even a pale hope that Austria might be able to preserve her independence without turning Nazi. U. S. correspondents in Munich reported that detachments of the threatening "Austrian Legion" of Nazis were being withdrawn from the frontier.
Crisis or not, there was still plenty for diminutive Chancellor Dollfuss to do. Just a year after he had dissolved Parliament, he let it be known last week that...
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