STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 643, sig. 109-4/391

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206 -- Inoffisiell, it is explained that it is possible that position against Austria is indeed different from that which is taken on the English side of Czechoslovakia and Poland. England has agreed to the integration of Austria into the German Reich and has concluded a delegation to Vienna. In the case of Czecho-Slovakia and Poland, England did not adopt this attitude, it was also important that Churchill had mentioned Austria in his radio address on Sunday evening in this context. DNB, Buenos Aires: "Prensa" laments in editorials the uncertainty of the whole world, which is only too understandable after acts of violence against Austria, Czechia and Poles. The same sheet is published in an emotional manner with former Polish ambassador Dipski with long refuted false representations about the consequences of the outbreak of war. DNB, Berne: "Journal de féevatr 'Genéve": .... The first war goal of the Allies has so far been the liberation of the attacked Poland; very soon next to Poland also Czechoslovakia was called, which is probably to be explained by the fact that France and Great Britain - e e e et - the "Neue Züricher Zeitung": Hinveis, that with the demand for the restoration of the independence of Austria, Czech Slovakia and Poland according to French opinion, the creation of an alarming organization of these Stsats in a larger federation is not incompatible, DNB, Madrid: "ABc"; Germany does not think about violating Holland's Neutra litit. Berlin would pass an English-French answer T d would have been possible under certain circumstances compromise solution possible, however, since Prankreich also quoted Austria, as well as future guarantees to England still protested France, even if the unification of Germany and Austria had already been pursued in the German-Austrian constitution in 1911.