Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested men may witness in Austria variations upon a theme by Hitler. It has come to be accepted as a law of social development that a waning capitalism will attack and destroy evolutionary social democracy. The corpse of the Austrian Socialist Party is being divided between the Dollfuss fascists and the pro-German Nazis. Its press has been silenced, its power is being alienated, and now reports have it that large numbers of its members are going over to the Nazis. It makes no difference whether Dollfuss or the Nazis win; both represent the inevitable triumph of capitalism by violence...
...history of Austrian socialism parallels that of the German. Originally militant Marxists, they became parliamentary gradualists under the stress of immediate problems, gathering support, and an apparently un-Marxian social evolution. In Vienna, their stronghold, they made astounding progress in developing a workers' paradise, with miles of modern apartment houses with landscaped courtyards, plenty of open air and light, great pools and bath houses--all for an average of $5 per month. This was accomplished by taxation of wealth and luxuries, which means, in effect, throwing a monkey wrench in to the capitalist works without substituting any new works...
...Austrian Socialist Party has been reduced from the most powerful party in the country to prostrate nullity and will proceed to disintegrate peacefully, or if necessary, forcefully since Dr. Dollfuss is now in a position to use force. The fact that many of the Socialists in Austria could be so blind as to join the Nazis merely indicates the dazed stupefaction of a working class movement which dreamed a beautiful dream--but suddenly woke up to face the bared teeth of an angered capitalism...
...Austrian Jew, Lawyer Kresel had been an assistant to Crusader William Travers Jerome, a special Federal Attorney in the post-War "Beef Trust" probe, an inquisitor of Manhattan's ambulance-chasing racket, and one of the most brilliant trial lawyers in the U. S. As inquisitor in the judicial investigation of New York City's magistrates' courts in 1930 he had achieved nationwide fame. The very day Bank of United States was closing its doors, Manhattan newspapers were calling Isidor Kresel "the swift sword of public conscience." Few weeks later, indicted along with seven other Bank...
Enrolled to defend the Dollfuss Government last week were 8,000 newly uniformed and smartly armed persons called "assistant soldiers." Under the Treaty of St. Germain the Austrian Republic is entitled to 30,000 volunteer soldiers. Britain, France and Italy, all pro-Dollfuss. agreed last summer to let Chancellor Dollfuss add the 8,000 reserve...