“The New Austria”
Slovene papers from Ljublana report that Slovene text-books for elementary schools have been confiscated by the Austrian censorship because of patriotic points in which the censorship saw an “overrating of the Slovenes and of their mother-tongue.” Similarly many Czech school text-books were confiscated. In one primer the sentence, “The lion is the king of the animal world” was changed into “Austria is my fatherland” [the lion is the national emblem of Bohemia]. The sentence “The Czechs are Slavs” was changed into “The Czechs are Austrians.” These are but two instances taken at random from the Austrian press to show that the old methods of the Police State still prevail in what some would have us believe is a “new Austria.”
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