1148 Fifth Avenue                      
 
                       New York City                        
 
 
March 26, 1938
 
 
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt:
 
 
I am writing with regard to a mat-
ter which a German Catholic priest, a certain Father
Reinhold, told me about a few years ago, and which may
appear as important to you as it does to me.  Father
Reinhold was exiled from Germany in 1935 and formerly
lived in Hamburg.  He is both a cultivated and intel-
ligent person, and is now a professor at Portsmouth
Priory, near Newport, which is a Benedictine founda-
tion.
 
 
Father Reinhold told me that the
former Austrian Chancellor- Schuschnigg- is, accord-
to the press, a prisoner of the Nazi Storm Troop-
ers, in the Belvidere Palace, Vienna, and that his son
is held as a hostage for his father.  The fear is
that Dr. Schuschnigg will either be assassinated or
imprisoned in a concentration camp for a long period
of time.
 
 
Father Reinhold is a friend of Dr.
Schuschnigg, having been a fellow-student of his at
the University of Innsbruck many years ago, and re-
gards him highly.  He believes that if informal re-