TELEGRAM RECEIVED
From PLAIN File DIVISION OF EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
Vienna MAR 12 1938 Undated DEPARTMENT OF STATE Rec'd March 11, 1938 5.47 p.m.
REB .
GPO
Secretary of State,
Washington
64
Schuschnigg made radio announcement at 7:45 in substance as follows:
I have to give my Austrian fellow countrymen the details of an eventful day and a grave situation. I declare before the whole world that the German Government today handed to President Miklas an ultimatum with a time limit attached ordering him to nominate as Chancellor a person designated by the German Government who would appoint a government satisfactory to them otherwise German troops would invade Austria. I have to declare before the world that news launched in Germany concerning disorders created by the workers, the shedding of blood of a situation which had got out of the control of the government are lies from A to Z. The President asks me to tell the people of Austria that we have yielded to force since we were not prepared even in this terrible situation to shed blood. We decided to order the troops to offer no serious (The Chancellor corrected himself and said to offer no resistance). The Inspector General of the Army, General Shildarsky, has been placed in command of the troops. He will issue further orders to them. So I take leave of the Austrian people with a German word of farewell uttered from the depth of my heart. God protect Austria.
WILEY
EMB
RGC
1096
Telegram to the US secretary of state on an announcement of Hitler's ultimatum to the Austrian government and the imminent German occupation of Austria
Authors
John C. Wiley (US consul in Vienna (1938))
John C. Wiley
American diplomat
- Born: 1893-01-01 (Bordeaux)
- Died: 1967-01-01
- Occupation: diplomat
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/72827709
- WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85150588
- Library of Congress authority ID: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85150588
Date: 11 March 1938
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: L-281
HLSL Item No.: 450689
Notes:The first page has the text in English, the second in German. This document was apparently not submitted as evidence.
Document Summary
L-281: Telegram 64 from Austrian Legation, Vienna to the Secretary of State giving text of Schuschnigg's radio speech of March 11, 1938
Telegram 64 from Austrian Legation, Vienna, to the Secretary of State giving text of Schuschnigg's radio speech of March 11, 1938
L-281: Report from: the American Embassy in Vienna to the Secretary of State, Washington, D.C. on the 12 of March, 1938. This report refers to Schuschnigg's radio announcement stating that,