Messersmith, G.S. Vienna. To William Phillips, Washington.
Date
1935-08-23
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
Abstract
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Tourist season at height and every part of Austria benefitted; Vienna full of foreigners while Austrians have gone to the country; Foreign Minister back on job, but other members of Government vacationing; Chancellor's mother died recently; work on Danubian Pacts going forward; mutual assistance provision left out; Germany still trying to sabotage pacts, but so far with no success; Germany now trying to make separate agreement with Austria merely to prevent conclusion of pacts, but if agreement were reached, Germany would keep it only so long as she pleased; nervousness felt because of tension between London and Rome, but London and Paris have made up differences; [Alfred] Kliefoth was in Berlin on way home and saw [Konstantin] and Frau von Neurath who told him that [Franz] von Papen did not have the confidence of Hitler or the German Foreign Office; Austria still hopeful that conflict in Abyssinia can be avoided; with Italy engaged elsewhere, Germany might feel the time ripe to move on Austria.
Keywords
Messersmith, George S. (George Strausser), 1883-1960.