Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Armed conflict between the Austrian Fascist Heimwehr and the outlawed Socialist Schutzbund has been inevitable since the bloody riots of 1927. What even the Heimwehr did not anticipate was the fierce bravery of the Socialist defense and the effect it would have on the foreign popularity of little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. The final outcome was never in doubt, but for nearly 48 hours determined Socialists actually had the upper hand in Linz and Steyr (Austria's Detroit). For a brief time even the Heimwehr commander, theatrical Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, was surrounded. Victorious at last...
This remark culminated an explanation of why Vienna has been in a position to develop into a Socialist unit strong enough to stand out against a predominantly anti-Socialist Austria. "The Austrian republic was founded as a state with various autonomous provinces of which Vienna became a very important one," said Dr. Kraus. "In the mind of the Austrian, Vienna stands for organized labor; the rest of Austria for the peasants and burghers. The city is identified with its doctrinaire leaders, while the peasant of the country is used to looking to the Church for leadership. Consequently it has become...
...Socialist stronghold. Burgomaster Karl Seitz was held prisoner. Army howitzers whanged away at Karl Marx court, largest apartment building in Europe, housing some 2,000 Socialist families. By the end of the second day's fighting, in what met most definitions of civil war, 400 to 500 Austrians lay dead. Austrian Socialism lay battered and bleeding, but Chancellor Dollfuss had yet to reckon with the sterner talents of Naziism...
...Austro-German Anschluss depends now primarily upon whether the Nazi element in the Austrian Heimwehr can gain the upper hand," said Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...
...followers of Jo Stalin may relapse now into a state of complacent triumph, for they have won the debate. The Austrian Socialists depended on leaders so imbued with the glories of constitutionalism that they compromised themselves into a hopeless position; nor were they, as the fugitive Bauer admits, goaded to a policy of spineless inaction by the conservatism of the rank-and-file; on the contrary, Dr. Bauer relates the difficulty the Party heads encountered in substituting "wise" and "cool" tactics for the "impetuosity" of the workers, who disliked seeing their organization being hamstrung without resistance. And when the Socialists...