"The Public Objects"

In 1934 Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, the last Chancellor of independent Austria, exhumed the bodies of two predecessors, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel and Engelbert Dollfuss, and placed them in elaborate bronze sarcophagi at the Church of Christ the King, in Vienna. Last week the Nazis ordered the bodies reburied in their original graves. Official Nazi reason: "The public objects to seeing these coffins exhibited in a place of worship." Nazis forgot to mention that since the Anschluss the public has not been allowed to enter the crypt.

Meanwhile, Dr. Schuschnigg remained locked up in an attic room under the eaves of Vienna's Hotel Metropole, headquarters of the Gestapo in Vienna. The correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post last fortnight reported it was practically certain that Dr. Schuschnigg would not be tried, more likely that he would soon be released to live, under strict guard, in a Vienna villa where he could be joined by his wife, whom he married by proxy while imprisoned.

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