Vienna Jewry was grimly amused today when it was disclosed that a Jew, Josef Kraus, had given blood for a transfusion to save the life of Dr. Anton Rintelen, former Austrian envoy to Rome, who left his post and returned here in anticipation of being the first Nazi chancellor of Austria. When the putsch failed, he shot himself and lies dangerously wounded in a Vienna hospital.
The Vienna papers carrying the story commented drily that “if Dr. Rintelen had become Chancellor he would also have taken Jewish blood, but in a totally different fashion.”
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