Letter of Gardinal Innitzer and Five Austrian Bishops to Buerckel.

Letter of Gardinal Innitzer and Five Austrian Bishops to Buerckel. Facsimily of the preface of the solomn proclamation of Austrian Bishops concerning the plebiscite. It reads: After thorough consultation, we Bishops of Austria, in view of the great historical hours which Austria'speople are experiencing and concsiuos that in our lifetime the thousand year old yearning of our people for union in a Great Reich of the Germans is finding fulfillment, have decided to adress the following proclamation to our faithful. We can do this allthemore free from anxicty since the representative of the Führer for the plebiscite in Austria, District-Leader Buerckel, has announced the forthright line of his policy which is under the motto 'Render to God what is God's and to Cesar what belongs to Cesar'. Vienna, 21st March 1938. For the Church Province of Vienna Cardinal Innitzer For the Church Province of Salzburg Prince Archbishop Waitz