,1t3lla~ very nuch enbrarsa~ertad, first because tie &a the last of the!

Titulesco noaineee in the f ~ r e 9 ~ 9 1 circles, and t o gain % b e , did

not know xbt to do. Any @or% o f d5plom~tfe sickne~s would hardly

~ound s good enowh excuae, ao he telegraphed t o h3.s Foraign

Kfnister reporting a complote 108s of voiceltl No a;nnouncwent

bas therefore been gfade yet %o the Committee of 26,

u t b Pebm~ry,

The events of the bast fortnight in Gemany have thrown

Suropts s i p i n into a period o f anxiety and grave doubt ars t o the

fbture, even the imediate fiilture* Tho fight between the A m y

and the ksxky, resultSng in the se~ igzmt ion of about It3 Qenerala~,

turned out t o be a coaspllete tricstary for the W s r s a i rttrty and the

srtranfsts aom'bined with the gpa%ndment a£ Ton RSbbentxog as Foreiga

Xirriieter, replatsing old Vln lewath. The kraty Beadquarters ham

beexr, s soxf of brake on the atore vialent rslm~erttss Sn so far as

Borodgn r o l i ~ r is coaaemed, but it seegla $hat this brake has now

b e ~ n very largo retmaved. The diacloaure of th io s c h i a ~ $a %he

totalitar%= uaity e v e the h p x e ~ i ~ i o n 09 we&enPng Cemiaw %XI

Cantrel Zu~ope, but i t was followed within a cozr@arativePy f e w

we, by a. oudden command from r t i t lar for Schu~chnigg to appear at

Besehtesgaden. ThinEcSng t W t things woulct not g~ %so badly,

Schu~chnigg axrfved and was treated, aa hhse l f saia t o s diyl-t

subsequantlg, is3. s way which he believed m s Srapo~sible bc-tween

two Ee8dh; of Goveramsnto in modcrn Baro;je. It a$ijp@ass that he

w ~ c s not even offered a sea* during the interview, but 023s treated

like a doaestlc aarvmt and waa girm hi8 orcke~f~~ wBL8 to ld

that Gesros~lhn a&litar;g action loadd now be carried out ~ i t h much less

r i s k t o Gemany than the oacu2otion of RhinePancl and tboL mgl.efnd

wid fianofa w ~ u l d not move to helg k h r Xa the ante-roo@ were,

waft$ag tfu-%c Conarerlsa, the Coaiander in Chief ant; the Corps

Ccmaandcr frm the frctntier, naahanfxeb and air-form t roogs wore

eoaaentrated. Inuidentally, Bitler s a i d to hLm that he hnd

learned frm Dalifax d h t Angland -8 In cglpplete S C D O T ~ with

HitZer on the C~sntml 3urogsa.a 2oJliay %hick, I, have reasan t o

believe, m a a flat lZe, The -retched Sohusab$gg ~eturned t o

V i e w , but was told he must give 8 def ia i ta ansmrer to the

dtiPratus wi thh thsse days. Me tried t o get iR %ouch w2kh

Btlssolini, his aforethe d e f e n a ~ r , but kl~saolfni had gorne t o &f

and aou3.d not ba foua&g hs was ds%tert;ed mil although the ~ ~ e ~ i 8 W i f

of the Auatri~an Federation t a r t fire* rehrs(ed t o agree t o tha

condli.tfana, they svsntua~ZXy conceded, They 31,aced ar masten

dutcsh HAustri&aw 5.n cha-ga af the Binistrg o f the latexior wikh

f u l L cantro3. of the p o l i c e $ ehaother yro-nsesi ;~rs-Csmi%?n we%

alao plaasd in the Cabinet and a19 2oliffeal yrisonera ware fseed,

mostly -%is for submrsiv@ ao'kfon a d the 2atrfotio Front, the

unique party allowed ;in Austria, lie ogensd .to Nag1 dom~n9lcs. Th@

Trogtm ~ O T S B h&s been admStL@h. For the moment AustrSa $8 no t

leaving the Les&y,xe, nor $ o i n i w the &ti-E~nuintern Y & ) E L C ~ , but her

forei- policy* as well as her fntcraal $olAcy, seems to have

passed com;>letely u n d e r Caman doninatSon and it would Beam only

a matter of a short tiae before &many is etrengthened Lri a

~trategical way by swallowing Bu~tria, There i a a certain pa~alLeZ

w i t h 13sLnzag and Eitler who is to peak to-gaorxow, will probably

draw the $arallel.

London and karia have been such disturbed; there k v a bean

Cabinet meetings i n London m d exobwges with the a3r.,nck Covernoent,

A mild request for infomation framn %be B~itish and bench

b b a s a s d o r ~ in Berlin rss badly received; Frsncoia innget w a s , in

fact, told that it was a fa~irily matter which C&d not concern the

outsiders, It is 2 o e s i b l e a firtker d&arohe will be nade.

It 5.8 clearer than ever that IGalx is asorificing her interests

in Central duroye in the haps of her new Upire in the %editerrw;nssng

%his in i tself is serf oue, XZ i h ~ b a a d y ie lded control o f the

%editemzzn%art it would be, in my dew, the begfnaing of the dc-elins

and fall of the British khgir@t, 'but I aa sextain that these zrrould

be .~r~ax before that; a d Weneb intrsrests ore at least ae p e a t with

with her &edfterrmem pu88e6sion~~

And Csechss3iuvakfax they are clearly next on the lPat; %he

poaition of CeechosPovakia with *spchroaised~ Aua*rfa w i l l be

weaker than ever, The Spanish method may be used there snd, if

demsnds tire not complied with, an insurreotion yrov&ede

A g o i n t to ~ h i c h I attach some s i ,g i f ic ,~~nce is the announcement

of a hurtiirad Conaervatioe Menbere o f the 3ouse of Comons, meeting

in Cornittee t o dIsauss Pore1gn Affairl;, an& sm07mcin~~ t h e i r

support for the Government in a more positive policy in 3"uroyo.

The outlook is sclmewhat gloomy.

When the occupatf on sf Austria cutm$lrsted, Adolph

teiegraphed t o Benitor- "I shall never forget t h h of youf* - refarring to l~;uasolini*s abstention f ~ o m oijpo~ition, etc.

The story $oft@ that the b i ~ atm in Bme renarke0, hen he,

reed the t ~ l e g r m r - "Beither shall It*'

22nd February, 1938

Bitler in his speech, referring t o 3ansig saidt "1 may ssy

t b t slnoe the League o i B~tiona has abandoned & t o coatinuoua

attsmpta of disturbance in Daneig and s t m e the advent of the new

coramiss50ner, (gui est un boame d* ) this most adnli~c;rou~

plsoe f o r Buropean yrsaa b e entirely lost its menacew (ca otcst 'r un cmglknent - oorm~ctntaira de la secr;taire). I sould feel

lom me ah at unhappy %n the cirowl lstmces if f hsd samedl praise fzl.0~

Bitler, The &anchestex Guardian say@, in a tclegraan fsam Barsawa

The referencrc; t o mnsig received o n l ~ a gprartial welcome, asr the new

ritua'tfo~p Sn which %he Free City beeme a matter fox B o r l i n and

&assow i e seasntsd by P O B ~ ;13~0ple in r o b ~ d r The rr;sJosity of ro les

feeling is stronger hers to-day than a little while ago, because in

~cslrsnd, ss elseshere, tho example of B5tlests method w i t h Austria

has caused I n c s e e ~ o d s;psethsxrsir>n.