Austria won’t let us transport troops across its territory. Austria says their constitution won’t let them do this without UN approval. Maybe so, but it occurs to me that Austria hasn’t always been unwelcoming to foreign armies. When Nazi troops marched across the Austrian border to absorb that nation into the Reich, Vienna swooned. Hitler recalled his reception thus: “Certain foreign newspapers have said that we fell on Austria with brutal methods. I can only say; even in death they cannot stop lying. I have in the course of my political struggle won much love from my people, but when I crossed the former frontier (into Austria) there met me such a stream of love as I have never experienced. Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.”