Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schools in Upper Austria will open tomorrow as usual...
Thus the Superintendents of Schools in Austria last week attempted to pick up the pieces and carry on ordinary life. In Vienna, too, children put on their sweaters to go skating in the Stadt Park. Cafés and cinemas could stay open. Police cleared the barbed wire barricades from the streets and out in the suburbs householders went back to their shell torn apartment houses. More than 1,000 men, women and children lay dead. The Nazis might strike on the morrow. Austria might have only a few weeks more of independence. A new world war might be brewing...
...contrast of interests between city and country in Austria cannot be too strongly stressed," said Dr. Wolfgang Kraus, instructor and tutor in government, at a meeting of the Inquiry in the Lowell House Common Room last night...
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...
Wolfgang Kraus, instructor and tutor in Government, will speak on "The Crisis in Austria," tonight at 7.45 o'clock in the Lowell House Common Room. The meeting, which is being held under the auspices of the Harvard Inquiry, will be preceded by an informal dinner in Lowell House. Following Dr. Kraus' talk, an open forum will be held. All men of the University are welcome...