Messersmith, G.S., Vienna. Despatch No. 66 to Secretary of State [Cordell Hull], Washington.
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Reports further developments in Nazi attempt to take over government; Vienna quiet, but clashes in other parts of Austria between Nazis and police troops, and Heimswehr; martial law declared; Vice-Chancellor [Ernst] von Starhemberg returned to Vienna today and took over duties as acting Chancellor; prisoners taken at Foreign Office subject to trial by military court; Dr. [Anton] Rintelen, Austrian Minister to Rome, implicated in plot and attempted suicide; called on President Miklas and Dr. Stefan Tauschitz, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to offer condolences of U.S. government on death of Dollfuss and attended funeral; physician who examined body said he died from loss of blood and that neither of the two wounds would have killed him, had he had immediate medical attention; Rieth recalled to Berlin and German government indicated Nazi prisoners would not be allowed into Germany if they were brought to border; leaders will without doubt be sentenced to death.