Word: neo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost three seats in the parliamentary election, the Socialists gained six. The rightists in Figl's People's Party charged him with softness toward the Socialists. The leaders of Figl's party announced that they would not join any new coalition government unless it included the neo-Nazi Union of Independents. The Socialists refused. For 38 days Austria was without a cabinet...
Last week the deadlock was broken. A new coalition cabinet was formed. The neo-Nazis were excluded, which was a victory for the Socialists. But the rightists in the People's Party also won, for Figl was out as Chancellor, and in his place was a blunt, tough-talking engineer, Julius Raab, a right-winger. Raab, 61, was a charter member of the Heimwehr, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg's private fascist army back in the late '20s; in 1930 he took the famous Heimwehr oath, ". . . We reject the democratic western Parliament...
...philosophy of liberalism is not yet dead, much as you might wish it. The scientific disciplines including the social sciences are reinforcing historical liberalism . . . rather than Neo-orthodoxy ... I wish TIME and Niebuhr would catch up to the 20th century in their philosophy...
...strong enough to be a bother were the revolutionary extremists: the Communists, who lost more than they gained from the election-campaign support of the Red army (and who campaigned on the slogan, "It's time for a change"), and the Union of Independents, a neo-Nazi party which won 12% of the popular vote in the last (1949) elections. The Independents talked a lot about capturing enough seats to give them a balance of power...
...score from 67 seats to 73 (only one fewer than the Catholics), and in the popular vote beat the Catholics by 37,000. In Austrian politics, which are often referred to as an "institutionalized deadlock," this meant more stalemate, with both main parties bucking for the premiership. But for neo-Nazis and Communists, the result was a cuff in the face. The Independents dwindled from 16 to 14 seats; the Communists dropped to a noisy minority of four...