HITLER'S TRUE AUSTRIAN AIMS WORRY EUROPE French, British Will Ask Reich to Reveal Future Plans of Republic. NAZIS GET NEW POWER 2 Nationalists, 2 Reich Friends Join Cabinet -Independence Promised. By The Associated Press. Officials of the French foreign office announced tonight that the French and British ambassadors in Berlin would ask the German government to reveal its future intentions concerning Austria. A high official said Britain and France, as a result of talks in London and Paris, had agreed that the situation in 4 Austria was "very grave." Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos, it was stated, had conferred tonight with Anthony Eden, Britain's foreign secretary, on the purpose behind the penetration of nazi infuence into the Austrian cabinet at the behest of Germany's Fuehrer Hitler. In London, Eden had talked with French Ambassador Charles Corbin; in Paris, Delbos conferred with Sir Herrick Phipps, the British ambassador. not tell today whether upMeanwhile anxious could Europe, heaval in its backyard was a landslide or a mere shifting of sands. What happened? In guarded secrecy Saturday, tiny Austria's anti-nazi chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg conferred in Germany with Reichsfuehrer Hitler. There had been enmity between the two-. Schuschnigg has championed the ing independence republic; of Hitler his German proclaimed a policy of pan-Germanism under the nazi banner. Monarchist Hopes Fade. Today, barriers of the Austrian cabinet against Nazis--legally outlawed in Austria -were let down. A close friend of Hitler, two men avowedly friendly to Nazi Gerream. and two nationalists were More than 2,000 Nazi prisoners in Austria were given amnesty and liberated. Austria's peace and Europe's peace are inextricably meshed. Austria spins on the Rome-Berlin axis; Germany wants union with Austria. Austria is virtually ›in the center of Europe. Her borders touch Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy and Switzerland. She is in the center of the -tugof-war between fascist and democratic, does influence. mean? In Vienna it signified "internal peace and amity abroad" for Austria-pledges of independence to satisfy Schuschnigg, an increased Nazi voice in Austria's destiny to satisfy Hitler. Also it dashed monarchist hopes of restoring a Hapsburg to the Austrian throne. Jews were dismayed, Nazis jubilant, Catholics apprehensive. In Berlin it signified 8 burial of the hatchet between Hitler and Schuschnigg and was described as a reassurance to Britain, pictured as anxious for Austrian-Germany friendship as®a prop for peace. In London it signified preparation for Austria to surrender her independence and a more active Nazi policy throughout central Europe. There were no indications, however, of British intervention and the press urged a hands off policy. Part of Il Duce's Program. In Rome it signified new solidarity of the Rome-Berlin axis. Officials said Premier Mussolini long had urged Schuschnigg to take Nazis into cabinet. They regarded the move as part of Il Duce's central European policy. In Paris it signified the beginning of joint French and British backing for Austria's battle against Nazis. Foreign office circles asserted that the French and British ministers in Vienna counselled Schuschnigg in his cabinet change. On the world's warfronts: In China, an American woman missionary of the independent gospel boat mission was injured when Japanese airplanes bombed the mission's boats on the Yellow river. United States marines turned back an armed Japanese patrol attempting for the fourth time to enter the American defense sector of Shanghai's international settlement.. In Spain, government forces launched a new offensive on the Aragon front, midway between Teruel and Zaragoza-
