Complex sentence: It turned to economic issues only in the last weeks before the plebiscite but was not capable of using the political instability of the young Austrian republic and its then unenviable position in the international community to its own advantage.
Split into simpler sentences: It turned to economic issues only in the last weeks before the plebiscite. It was not capable of using the political instability of the young Austrian republic and its then unenviable position in the international community to its own advantage.