Abstract

Austria - Enter Fascismo

Austria constantly voices her need of publicity, but owing to the lack of unity among her various provinces, rarely secures it in the measure she needs and deserves. The Socialists pointed to the callousness toward Austria's suddenly developed stream of tourist traffic shown by the Heimwehr, Fascists, who insisted on marching 20,000 men from other provinces through the predominantly Socialist, industrial town of Wiener Neustadt, a bare thirty miles from the capital. The forces behind the Heimwehr are many, and powerful. Austrian particularism, the dislike of the provinces for the capital, of the peasant for the townsman, of the devout Catholic for the Social Democrat, who the priest tells him is Anti-Christ-these furnish the nucleus.