Word: raab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gruber memoirs, there appeared one day a chapter relating how Austrian Communists sat down with leaders of Gruber's own Catholic People's Party in 1947 to negotiate a partnership. People's Party leaders-including, implied Gruber, ex-Chancellor Leopold Figl and the present Chancellor Julius Raab-agreed to force the militantly anti-Red Socialists out of the coalition government and to make a Communist stooge Chancellor, in return for concessions from Moscow. "Such a catastrophe and criminal nonsense must be prevented," Gruber recalls himself as saying then. He credited himself with telling the Socialists...
...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 . . ."; in 1938 he served briefly...
Socialists respect Raab for being a man of his word and for speaking it frankly but detest his politics. Chances are that before long, Austria will be wishing for the return of Figl's famous balancing...