Evening star., 1933-10-08
BY COUNT CARLO, sFORZA.

Former italian Minister for Foreign Affairs.
"HE newspapers of the whole world
are showering enthusiastic ar
ticles on Austrias little Chan
cellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who is
represented as a romantic David,
capable of Staying the Nazi Goliath
with his sling. Never, since the
treaties of Versailles and Saint-Ger-
main, has Austria been so conspicuously
in the limelight.
Far be it from me to belittle the
courage shown in his struggle against
Hitler by Millimetternich-as the Skep
tical Viennese have nicknamed Dollfuss
because of his exceedingly small stature
and because he has become, for the
present, almost as famous as his cele-
brated predecessor of 1846, Prince Met
ternich
But in the present political situation
in Austria there is a feature which,
though less spectacular, is far more in
teresting than the Hitler-Dollfuss duel.
This feature is the object lesson which
Austrian Fascism offers of the follow
ing truth: THAT Fascist parties and
dictatorial theorists may agree with one
another, across their different frontiers,
on a common program of destruction
of public liberties and suppression of
dissenting minorities, but as soon as
they are in power they find themselves
obliged to glare at each other like
porcelain dogs on a chimney piece and
to suspect and hate each other"
In Germany and Austria.
What do we see in Germany and
Austria? In Germany most violent
form of Fascism is in power, in Austria
the Government is in the hands of an
~; -l,i l., 1l~l %11 0f r.
erty and democracy, as much as do
the Nazis. But while liberal Austria
and the Social-Democratic parties of
Austria both were. from 1919 to 1882,
more or less anxious for union with
Republican Germany, dictatorial Ger
many has Immediately found a bitter
enemy in dictatorial Austria.
One might have expected that Ger
man Fascists and Austrian Fascists
might have found still more reasons for
agreement among themselves than ever
before
The bureaucracy now in Office in vi
emma is impregnated with the anti
Semitic thesis of another Austrian-the
eX-Jew. Dr. Steinbach-who invented
all the petit-bourgeois measures against
the big department stores which Hitler
has copied in his book, 'Meln
Kampf"
Only short time ago Dollfuss con-
fiscated Viennese paper guilty of re-
producing the famous passage of
Schillers Wilhelm Tell" which is
magnificent hymn to liberty.
Remembering all that seeing all that,
one is assailed by the fear that Chan
cellor Dollfuss and his more or less
camouf1aged Austrian Fascism are
nothing more nor less than a resuscita-
ton of the old feudal, clerical. illiberal
Hapsburg Austria.
Dollfuss Awaits "Drunkard."
Present-day Germany is like drunk
en- man armed with deadly weapons.
And Herr Dollfuss is lying in wait for
him. armed with an old f1intlock.
At bottom. what present-day Austria
(Which is nothing else than the old
GERMANY of the Gemiltlickeit) dislikes
IN the German Third Reich is neither
its ami -Semitisrn nor its destruction of
liberty: it is rather the vulgar virul-
enCe Of tie Hitlerian staff and its as
sumption Of airs of superiority over
what has been for centuries the most
highly respected part of the German
Uorld-Austria herself
But this Austrian dislike of Nazi Ger
many. void as it is of any form of
idealistic love of freedom. is sufficient
for all free spirits in America and