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February 18, 1934

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Dollfuss Ends 10-Year Rule Of the Socialists in Vienna; Spread of Hitlerism in Republic Hastened Long-Impending Outbreak -- Defeated Win Sympathy of the World. DR. DOLLFUSS ENDS RULE OF SOCIALISTS

By G.e.r. Gedye.wireless To the New York Times.by G.e.r. Gedye

VIENNA, Feb. 16. -- When the first official news of the outbreak of bloody civil war in Austria shocked the world last Monday, it was described as a plot by criminal elements which the government was easily suppressing. Those unable to follow closely the events of the little Austrian republic may have imagined a handful of bloodthirsty Bolshevists running through the streets, torches in hand, inciting brutal mobs to plunder.

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Audre Lorde

1934Audre Lorde, American writer and activist (died 1992)[†]

Audre Lorde was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet" who dedicated her life and talents to confronting different forms of injustice, as she believed there could be "no hierarchy of oppressions" among "those who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children".