863.00/1529: Telegram
The Chargé in Austria (Wiley) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 18—4:52 p.m.]
115. Have just seen Polish Minister. He said he talked with Ribbentrop when here. Latter informed him German point of view was that all treaties with Austria became juridically extinct upon incorporation in Reich. Germany, however, would make every effort to meet questions which might arise in equitable manner. Ribbentrop added that Legation in Vienna would be given diplomatic immunities until April 10.
An American who is entirely reliable spent last evening with group composed of officials and party members. Von Stumm of the Foreign Office stated that Germany would be in Czechoslovakia before summer. Czechs would be given possibility of remaining undisturbed within own small racial frontiers provided they gave complete autonomy to Sudeten Germans.
Schwerin, editor of Essener National Zeitung, told informant that project for Schuschnigg’s trial for high treason had been abandoned. He would be transferred to Dachau and “broken”.