There is a lot of information posted today, but I think if you eventually read through it all you will get a pretty good idea of what reaction was like around the world to Hitler's move into Austria. Here is a sort of table of contents to what all is posted after the lead summary article:
Reply #2-Schschnigg Goes-Details of the political situation
Reply #3-Reich Army Moves-A reporter drives around on the border trying to figure out what is goin on
Reply #4-British Appalled-Really old boy, is this quite sporting?
Reply #5-A collection of short articles from the back pages.
Reply #6-Hitler strikes again-The times editorial opinion on the situation.
I must say I've never read or heard that expression before.
Note the US response:
“Nothing has happened, Secretary Hull added, that would involve the United States, and this government has not urged a course of moderation on the German Government through Hugh R. Wilson, the United States Ambassador in Berlin.”
So clearly, any criticism of the Brits & French for spinelessness would apply double to the US!
And BY THE WAY, isn’t this precisely what our “loyal Republican” candidate Ron Paul is saying we should go back to?
Isn’t this his idea of Robert Taft style “true conservatism”?
The Panzers barely made it to Vienna. If the citizens were not so enthusiastic about welcoming the Anschluss it wouldn’t have happened. The mood in Vienna went overnight from peace and peaceful coexistence (with the Jews) to Nazi loving demonstrations—go to bed a Liberal and wake up a flamethrowing Nazi. Just that quick.