Prelude to Murder?

Nazi activity in Austria is a crime. In Vienna there was, however, a quiet understanding which served as a kind of life insurance for Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg: anti-Nazi laws would not be too strictly enforced so long as Nazis would not foment any more such plots as that which succeeded four years ago in the brutal murder of Chancellor Dollfuss. Last week Dr. Josef Tavs, the No. 2 Austrian Nazi, could not resist boasting to the correspondent of a Czechoslovak newspaper that he and Captain Josef Leopold, the No. 1 Austrian Nazi, were openly doing Nazi business from an office in the heart of Vienna. When Chancellor Schuschnigg read this in the papers he regretfully parted, with his life insurance, jailed Dr. Tavs.

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