AUSTRIAN POLITICS
'T’HE prosecution of the wives of the Austrian Socialists, on the ground of treason because they distributed food and cigarettes to the Schutzbund during the recent fighting, is quite in accord with the Austrian character. The Austrian is a lovable artistic character. He has produced great statesmen, soldiers and priests, but he has a singular Asiatic tinge in his psychological make-up which permits of his engaging in repression of a singularly thoroughgoing character. It was this trait which prevented pre-war Austria from ever easing the yoke which they laid on the Southern Slavs and thus sowed the seeds of the World War. The history of Austria is a history of great heroisms and of great persecutions. The Hapsburgs were blamed for the latter, but it now appears that Austria, without the Hapsburgs, is equally as capable of ruthless repression as ever it was during the last century when it was part of the dual monarchy.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 84, 10 April 1934, Page 4
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157AUSTRIAN POLITICS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 84, 10 April 1934, Page 4
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