Title | Revolutionary essays |
Series Title | International socialist library, 15 |
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Publisher | British Socialist Party |
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Date | 1920 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 46 pages; 18 cm. |
Original Item Location | HX256.K84 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304436~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
File Name | index.cpd |
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Transcript | considerations of a military and political nature do not permit of the publication of the secret treaty, and announces triumphantly that the treaty of alliance between Germany and Austria is first and foremost the result of the German military successes. And the paper does not conceal the military and aggressive character of the new agreement; it does not hide the fact that its aim is the utilisation of Austro-Hungarian man-power for German military ends. From the economic point of view, Austria-Hungary is completely exhausted. She can supply neither bread nor raw material. Its German imperialist allies have no longer any belief in its credit. The only article of commerce which Austria can still supply—albeit with difficulty—is cannon fodden Nevertheless, this treaty is meeting with no small opposition from all the peoples of Austria, not excluding the German-Austrians. The "Arbeiter Zeitung" protests sharply against this aggressive alliance, this annexation; although the Austrian Government takes pains to emphasise that "the defensive nature of the Dual Alliance remains unchanged." In spite of the desperate attempts to prevent the annexation and final reduction of Austria into the status of a colony, a semi-official statement of the Government has to declare, in discharge of "its duty as an ally," that the spearhead of this agreement is directed not only against Russia, as hitherto, but against "all other Powers." The semi-official statement of the Austrian Government goes on to point out that the new alliance, as it now stands, assumes the character of a "League of Nations"—under which title is masked a league of the Central European Powers, headed by Germany. This may possibly pacify the Austrian social-patriots of the type of Karl Renner, but will in no way satisfy the proletarian masses of Austria and Hungary. Annexations will not calm the soldiers, deserting in larger and larger numbers, and, according to trustworthy information, refusing to go to the French front. . . . If the Austrian semi-official statement twice emphasises the fact that "an unshakeable foundation has been created for the new alliance"—that military power which, in the eyes of the German papers, constitutes the chief value of the (27) |