The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-30
There Will Be Deaths We Know Not
When,' Wrote DollfusS Few Hours
Before His Assassination by Nazis

been obliged to earn their bread,
who live on the fruits of the labor
of their parents, feel that they are
better patriots than we others who
during many years riSked our lives,
risked our blood for the defense of
our homeland. I am fearful be-
cause that class of youths today
suffers morally, is morally sick,
for they would not hesitate, to
gain their political ambitions, to
provoke the worst disasters and
they would not hesitate at the
most odlous crimes, Sparing none
for what they might have done for
the fatherland in the past
Many of us feel ourselves in
danger of a foul blow.
There have been deaths. There
will be deaths We know not when.
But if we fall, we will shed our
blood as we battle for the father
land
None Of us desires to gain his
political aims by such means.
Men with hearts would be too
great Christians in that case; they
would have too many scruples to
put arms into the hands of other
men, to furnish them with explo-
sives and bombs.
CONSEQUENTLY 1 think it is
~ timely to repeat clearly what
Monsignor Seipel said in 1927, in
vain, it is true, in addressing the
Socialists: Draw a line between
yourselves and the criminal ele-
ments, turn yourselves away from
adventures and those men with
out scruples. 1 address my APP
peal particularly to the Nation
aliStS and 1 ask you do you wish
a community with criminals? I
invite you to break uncondition-
ally and unequivocally those
criminal elements. I urge you to
get away from such methods and
theories which admit such meth
DDS. In face of such menaces
there is but one position to take,
that of. proclaiming loudly I am
opposed to bombs He who re-
fuses to proclaim the opposition
clearly and without afterthought
is guilty of completely. We seek
to unite in common patriotic
front of all those ready to defend
this German land as their free,
independent homeland"
Should I repeat again that the
patriotic movement positively is
not a concentration of political
parties but really movement of
regeneration and that it aims,
without consideration of past al
liances with any political party, at
the reunion of all those who see
in Austria their real homeland?
Consequently no one can be ex-
cluded from our movement so
long as he recognizes positively
Austria as homeland.
Now it is the duty of all Ma
tionalistS to declare themselves so
that the entire world can see
clearly, if the future of their race
really fills them with anxiety, if
really they love their homeland.
IT also would be in the interests
Il of those ultra Nationalist circles
to establish contact with the
new patriotic movement and hold
a place for themselves in the
new state which is bound to
come.
In that way we could bring an
abrupt end to the fallacious
maneuverS of certain National
Socialist organizations. Each as
ISOLATION, each organization which
insists upon its purely national
character must soon decide if it
will tolerate in its ranks GRIM
inals or parents, followers or
propagandiSts of criminals.
In times as difficult as those
we are living in, there is no use
in half measures, nonchalance or
lukeWarm sentiments. Those who
are not for us are against us. To
be for us does not involve any,
thing personal, does not concern
ambition or personal pride.
I'm these troubled times we de-
sire to remain at the posts of
duty whereto God assigned us,
we wish to persevere in the path
we have set, we want to serve our
valiant Austrian Christian people
to the utmost of our power.
We can not perform miracles,
but we desire to do everything to
aid our people and to give the
best example we are able to give
for the integral accomplishment
of our duties.
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