It is difficult to choose a sample in a work so vast and so dense (nearly 800 pages). Background sample: not far from the end of the war in 1918.
Scene 21
War Department.
A CAPTAIN (reading a text) : Secret military! - Having regard to the million or almost Russian prisoners of war who in the months to come will leave the Austro-Hungarian to return home, the feelings with which these prisoners will remember the time in our country are of paramount importance . Action triggered by us at the appropriate time therefore seems highly desirable to alleviate their feelings and unhappy experiences in captivity and to revive and strengthen those who were pleasant and cheerful. The Russians returning to their country will not remember us with a gloomy indifference or even hostility but hate will knowingly and conviction messengers of civilization Austro-Hungarian in their own homeland. The means of obtaining a favorable effect lie in the implementation of political propaganda, social and economic generous, adapted to the Russian soul and brought by sincere intentions. The intention is that shortly before the expulsion -
THE SECRAITAIRE: How?
CAPTAIN: - the expulsion of Russian prisoners of war, it awakens through propaganda conferences on political, social and economic sympathetic to Austria among the Russian POWs. In addition to all the important consequences for our economy, for example, such a shift in the Russian soul may cause a significant decrease in false propaganda that our enemies dropping on the world. To obtain a lasting effect on prisoners Russian propaganda among Russian prisoners do not naturally limit the holding of conferences. Instead, it will be necessary until the final disposal, to act favorably on Russian prisoners by other means, as it must, every point of view. - Go to line.
Considering the facts, it is obvious that if such propaganda was conducted exclusively by the organs of military administration undoubtedly would lose much of its original value - and yes, it's true after all - and it seems advantageous in perspective of the objective for this mission it is called, as required, to competent persons and interested in both ideologically and practically, in order to climb to a level as far as possible from military forms. - Anyway, it's a little strong coffee! - The essential condition in turn leads to that, for reasons of military discipline, such propaganda can be distilled shortly before the departure of Russian prisoners of war - of course! - With the hope that they return to their homeland with fresh and immediate impressions received through them. - A line. Politically: With a conviction that springs from the deepest sincerity, that Austria-Hungary just as we can without hesitation give the Russians returning home the assurance that our country does not want war, and ardently desired peace - not bad he said that, we are choir boys, the rest of us, anyway -
SECRETARY: What? It is -
CAPTAIN: No, that you do not write it! - So you want peace, we express regret, frankly doubt the hardships related to the plight of prisoners in captivity and that all wrongs - come, come! - By the prisoners are not the result of resentment, contempt, or worse, hatred toward the Russian people, but only come face accumulated due to the prolonged conflict. On-line! Socially: Without touching Do not be a word the current social situation in Russia, we can effectively explain to the Russians returning home the advantages and characteristics of our social structures. We must draw particular attention to the continued growth of well-being and progress in this type of social organization, and the profit derived by the community as well as the individual. - Yes, it's true after all - at the line. We come now to the heart of the problem. Economically: As far as the facts show that it can not overcome the major difficulties arising over the prolonged state of war and unrest that by deploying maximum of all the forces available and working with start-parallel, rapid and generous beyond national borders, exchange of goods, Russians returning home eventually fully understand the absolute need to establish rapid and full trade relations with the monarchy. It will be easy in this context, to show people convincingly that the peasant who hides its reserves, thereby placing the free market, is detrimental to himself, to the extent that doing so precisely, it does between no - or very late - in the possession of consumer goods that covets. Precisely because our population, responsible for the manufacture of the food is not even in mink insufficient food, develop the necessary maximum economic energies in time of peace, with good food, a large export . - Well, they'll still come to understand, that! On-line.
Regarding agricultural areas, particularly prisoners of war of the rural communes, propaganda is not necessary, unless to suggest that the Russian prisoners of war living in the countryside that the conditions of feeding urban populations leave much to be desired and that assistance in the form of imports from outside would be more urgent. - They will eventually set the gap, this. - On line.
It is quite different from Russian prisoners of war in factories, on construction sites of any kind and in the administration. In this case, it would be very helpful if employers support the patriotic duty to reduce, as appropriate, their days working at home. - On line!
All directors of companies subject to military law on the war effort and mining and military commanders are therefore all required to visit or inspect immediately all the locations Employees of Russian prisoners of war and act similarly on prisoners of war, as has been demanded already in camp commanders (under heading of the Ministerial Decree No. 14169/18). On-line.
The camp commander will visit the various housing units and establish personal contacts with Russian prisoners. (In a friendly voice.) Sometimes he will ask questions about their health and sometimes their parents, their food, mail, clothing. In case of complaints, it should lend itself to on-site investigation in detail, in public, before all prisoners of war. He must convince them that it spares no effort to discover the truth and do justice. It will use complaints about food and clothing to show the Russians that it is not our fault but that of our enemies to the west and that would give with joy more especially the Russian prisoners if we had more. Now the Russians, they are no longer our enemy. (More warm)
Moreover we have never seen as enemies, as evidenced by the many wars that saw former Russian and Austro-Hungarian fight valiantly side by side. The camp commander will visit from time to time in the kitchen when meat or fish are about to be distributed. It will take one, two or four at the moment or -
SECRETARY: What?
CAPTAIN: - at the moment they go with their food to be distributed to their beds. (With enthusiasm.) Place the bowl, bring the scale to weigh meat or fish. The more public the better. Then the account book, how meat has been purchased in total that day? Subtract 25% for bone, 20% for cooking, divide the remainder by the number of servings and (threatening) missing even if only 10 grams a serving - well over two hundred portions, for example, two kilos of meat or fish have been stolen. (Sévèrement.) Who did this? Power Commission, cooks, responsible for inspection, report! Severe trial to all prisoners of war of the dwelling. Consequence: layoff of cooks, supply and commission of all employees in the kitchen if the culprit is not found. At the door - ah line!
If the commander of the camp is among the Russians tobacco, cigarettes, bread bought from outside, sausage, and so he asked about the price that a particular prisoner of war had to pay. Soon they discovered that among the prisoners of war there are many traffickers. These followers of the black market are not always the Jews. They have contacts outside the camp to which they provide in time to resell the purchased items to their comrades, prisoners of war, three or four times more expensive. If the camp commander was able to catch such a trafficker - (Rageur.) naked, body search and excavation of the bag. Often, he will find him on 500 crowns or more. Confiscated and distributed among the other prisoners of war any sum exceeding those which it can justify the origin. On-line!
In the present circumstances, the Russian POWs listen to the commander of the camp for hours if he can give them information on trade. This is when our turn, how much longer? If he is able to prove to them by A plus B that is not our fault if the trade drag as prisoners of war will resume taste at work - except that it should not denigrate Russia. It would be a foul. - On line!
(With sentimentality.) The Russian hearts open wide, becoming larger when the colonel himself their say from time to time the latest news from Russia that he has gleaned in the Morgenblätter. (posing). With righteousness and obedience, they will welcome a hello, no breach of discipline is to be feared when he speaks to them. Everywhere, and here a fortiori, it must lead by example and also greet with all the righteousness that allows him his age and infirmities.
(Does the military hello.) A visit to the camp commander at the camp hospital - AN ASPIRING
(incoming) : Captain, with your permission, Colonel asks report on prisoners of war Russian.
CAPTAIN : Decree on propaganda? I devote myself, exactly. THE ASPIRING
: Not on the propaganda, the starved
E CAPTAIN: The dead of starvation? Where are they still starved? It was here, on this issue? THE ASPIRING
: This is the case of the Russian who was sleeping on a bed with two others who died of hunger. He was already in a state of decomposition when the inspector entered the room and the other two were so weak they could not get up nor call.
CAPTAIN: Minute - told the colonel that I will now examine the landings, but for now I'm in charge of propaganda, you know, to mitigate the impressions unfortunate prisoners of war and we can again establish a commercial relationship and then they send us food, the Russians, once they returned home, et cetera.
(Changement.)
Scene 22
Provincial Government in Brno.
GOVERNOR: I have an idea! (To his secretary.) among the most important lessons we can, we must learn from this deadly world war and the sacrifices it requires from the entire population, is certainly not the least the importance of education in the patriotic spirit that we must instill in our youth at school, knowledge and love of country, in its narrowest limits and the broader need to teach him, and all these seeds to plant in the child's soul will be born with these beautiful and manly qualities that make the young man able to satisfy as a fiery patriot, led by love and devotion to duty and loyalty to the imperial house and the homeland, and to do a conscientious and dedicated his civic duties, and to sacrifice even, where appropriate, his life and health for these ideals.
In Austria, alas, few preparations have been done in this direction, and I think it would be the duty of every person of the Empire to catch up and worry about the future development of feelings patriotic and dynastic generation to come, feelings that, thank God, are everywhere present in germ.
A small monthly magazine written in a popular style, adapted to the spirit of our educated youth, entitled Mladé Rakousko , will air in our schools primary and secondary schools and in our professional and I consider it a sacred duty of all our comrades in spirit and condition, as a noble task of our landowners, to support the dissemination of this month in the schools under its zone of economic influence by subscribing to a number of copies for these schools to make possible the free distribution of this monthly to students in need: we can not rightly expect only an effect on the students themselves themselves but also affect older members of families.
The annual subscription this review amounted to 2.40 kroner and can be purchased at Brno, 18, place of Emperor Francis Joseph.
May this appeal -
(changement.)
In a primary school.
few benches are empty. Children still alive undernourished. All have paper clothing.
ZEHETBAUER THE TEACHER: - - Beware of rumors in circulation and fight them as they should. The machiavellian enemies is to sow confusion in your ranks, but they will not succeed. Close your ears their allegations that we could not hold out until the happy ending and like what we would prevail in the famine. Who is responsible, otherwise the enemies? And now they even develop a business of poisoning wells, because - (A boy raises his finger.) What do you want, Gasselseder?
GASSELSEDER: Please, sir, then one has the right to drink anything?
THE TEACHER: Sitting, you're a fool, I have not spoken figuratively but literally! The enemy, unable to defeat us on the battlefield, intends to undermine our forces in the rear. Thus, Beware of rumors. Contribute to the most vigorous in their enforcement. They are part of the arsenal of our enemies - (A boy raises his finger.) What do you want, Anderle?
ANDERLE: Please, sir, our enemies as they have an arsenal?
THE TEACHER: Of course they have one, only it only contains rumors, and they will stop at nothing to undermine the edifice of the monarchy, or even loosen the bonds of love and veneration we attach to the imperial house. Kotzlik, you disturb the class, repeat what I just said.
KOTZLIK: Enemies - The enemy, they have - undermined the arsenal - and - we do not back down no link - that binds us to nothing -
THE TEACHER: Wrong topic! You will stay here after class and copy the sentence ten times which I command you. Sit, good for nothing! And you, be firm. Take this example on the Wooden Soldiers. As the imperial eagle of the Habsburgs, defying the symbol time, will evolve over our heads, it will remain upright, as built for eternity. Go to convince yourself, go there and do not hesitate to drive a nail, to the extent that there is still room for a nail, with permission gentlemen of your parents or guardians. By making you close your ears to the language sneaky because they dare even say that the days of wooden soldiers are numbered and that his place will soon find a sausage seller. Thank God we're not there yet and we willingly endure the hardships that the country imposes on us until victory is not definitively acquired but fluctuates from one camp to another. And yet! If we - (A boy raises his finger.) What do you want, Zitterer?
ZITTERER: Please sir, peace!
THE TEACHER: Sitting scamp! You, you will end when the rope around his neck you will enter into life, I'll predict. Sit, good for nothing! Are not you ashamed? And what happens there, the third largest? Merores, but you chatty!
Mérorès: Dad said he did not understand the enthusiasm for peace, he is not pressed, on the contrary, I think it's rather annoyed, he won a lot of money, and s' there will be peace, it will finish everything.
THE TEACHER: Merores, it is that your father takes good so valiantly and he gives the example, but you speak without anyone asks you and this is a sign that thanks threats of the enemy discipline has already strongly relaxed. I would not assume that you are in the pay of the enemy propaganda that has its antennas everywhere, but I must say, while the final decision is at our fingertips, such behavior seems highly suspect. I can only be hammered again and again: stick to your guns no matter what! What would happen if you had the same wobble? The enemy invade the country and then woe betide you, woe to your sisters and your promised woe to your parents or guardians gentlemen! (A boy raises his finger.) What do you want, Sukfüll?
SUKFÜLL: If Please, sir, aliens! My father, he said he no longer wants to hold on, there is more, it is high time that foreigners are coming!
CLASS: Yes, cultivate tourism!
THE TEACHER: No! It was not in that sense! Tourism is a sweet little plant that requires all our attention. Do you have the nostalgia of macaroni?
CLASS: Yes! We would like to have something to eat!
THE TEACHER: Bah! You're bad people! What a shame! What must you think of our late revered monarch whose portrait once you looked up there? He never could imagine that such a result when depravity was forced to take defensive deliberately provoked this war, and to draw the sword against a superior force in numbers. Woe betide you if the enemy invades the country! He descended into luxury hotels, would not it be funny to you, and our wives, homemakers would be for family expenses. Have you forgotten what I told you? I hope not!
CLASS: While the rugged warrior storm sweeps our land, our illustrious monarch called Weapons of thousands and thousands of our son and our brethren, the first emerging signs of increased tourism. So never lose sight of this ideal. Intone rather that old song you've learned previously in peacetime, Growing tourism! (They sing.)
A, a, a, the tourists are.
bleak times are over, finally
Foreigners flock.
A, a, a, the tourists are.
(Changement.)
A federation of Tourism.
THE EDITOR: - - to ask you a few statements on the organization of tourism after the war: whether measures have already been envisaged in this area.
THE LEADER: Of course. As you know, the days following the Congress of the Medical Corporations student, an exchange took place between representatives of groups specializing in corporate tourism student from Germany, Hungary and Austria.
THE EDITOR: It should probably expect that the problem of tourism after the war is considered totally angles new.
THE LEAD: Undoubtedly.
THE EDITOR: Would you please give me a hint on the first direction to be taken after the war the situation of our brothers in arms against tourism? There is no question that the enemy probably will not suffer losses in this field too?
THE CHARGE: In all likelihood, the Germans obviously did not make the scene of Belgian and French tourism.
THE EDITOR: You mean the Germans could not or would not want to go to these places?
THE GUARDIAN: I mean, the Germans will not want to go to these places. THE
EDITOR: So the Germans will doubtless seek replacements? I mean, places replacement in their own country?
THE LEAD: The German side offers plenty of places to replace the beaches of the North Sea.
THE EDITOR: But when the Germans they seek places to replace the Riviera? Reportedly, at home?
THE LEAD: The Austrian Adriatic coast is probably perfectly capable of replacing the Riviera with its climate benefits as a vacation in the spring and summer, it should therefore expect a large influx of tourists.
WRITER : By mentioning the Austrian Adriatic coast in opposition perhaps to the Italian coast, you want to say that in any case will always be the Adriatic -
THE CHARGE: - ours. Certainly, if the Germans would be forced to seek a replacement for the Adriatic as well.
THE EDITOR: If I understand correctly, you are of the opinion that it is mainly the German public that our tourism should take into account?
THE LEADER: Yes.
THE EDITOR: Let's cut to the chase. What will be the attractions we can offer to foreigners after the war, or rather what can we offer them possibly replacing monuments destroyed by war? For the Adriatic you rightly established a favorable prognosis. But what do we have to offer in addition?
THE CHARGE: In addition, the Alpine countries, with their superb memories of war will be a magnet for the tourist public of the Central Powers.
THE EDITOR: What kind of memories of war are seen in this area?
THE LEADER: We cherish the hope that the graves of our heroes in military cemeteries will the coming of many travelers. The aim is to again in our house value. And precisely on this point we appeal to the cooperation of the press because we have a responsibility to build attractions that holds each period, and that the graves of those who died in battle seem made expressly to authorize hope for a recovery in tourism.
(Changement.)
THE SECRAITAIRE: How?
CAPTAIN: - the expulsion of Russian prisoners of war, it awakens through propaganda conferences on political, social and economic sympathetic to Austria among the Russian POWs. In addition to all the important consequences for our economy, for example, such a shift in the Russian soul may cause a significant decrease in false propaganda that our enemies dropping on the world. To obtain a lasting effect on prisoners Russian propaganda among Russian prisoners do not naturally limit the holding of conferences. Instead, it will be necessary until the final disposal, to act favorably on Russian prisoners by other means, as it must, every point of view. - Go to line.
Considering the facts, it is obvious that if such propaganda was conducted exclusively by the organs of military administration undoubtedly would lose much of its original value - and yes, it's true after all - and it seems advantageous in perspective of the objective for this mission it is called, as required, to competent persons and interested in both ideologically and practically, in order to climb to a level as far as possible from military forms. - Anyway, it's a little strong coffee! - The essential condition in turn leads to that, for reasons of military discipline, such propaganda can be distilled shortly before the departure of Russian prisoners of war - of course! - With the hope that they return to their homeland with fresh and immediate impressions received through them. - A line. Politically: With a conviction that springs from the deepest sincerity, that Austria-Hungary just as we can without hesitation give the Russians returning home the assurance that our country does not want war, and ardently desired peace - not bad he said that, we are choir boys, the rest of us, anyway -
SECRETARY: What? It is -
CAPTAIN: No, that you do not write it! - So you want peace, we express regret, frankly doubt the hardships related to the plight of prisoners in captivity and that all wrongs - come, come! - By the prisoners are not the result of resentment, contempt, or worse, hatred toward the Russian people, but only come face accumulated due to the prolonged conflict. On-line! Socially: Without touching Do not be a word the current social situation in Russia, we can effectively explain to the Russians returning home the advantages and characteristics of our social structures. We must draw particular attention to the continued growth of well-being and progress in this type of social organization, and the profit derived by the community as well as the individual. - Yes, it's true after all - at the line. We come now to the heart of the problem. Economically: As far as the facts show that it can not overcome the major difficulties arising over the prolonged state of war and unrest that by deploying maximum of all the forces available and working with start-parallel, rapid and generous beyond national borders, exchange of goods, Russians returning home eventually fully understand the absolute need to establish rapid and full trade relations with the monarchy. It will be easy in this context, to show people convincingly that the peasant who hides its reserves, thereby placing the free market, is detrimental to himself, to the extent that doing so precisely, it does between no - or very late - in the possession of consumer goods that covets. Precisely because our population, responsible for the manufacture of the food is not even in mink insufficient food, develop the necessary maximum economic energies in time of peace, with good food, a large export . - Well, they'll still come to understand, that! On-line.
Regarding agricultural areas, particularly prisoners of war of the rural communes, propaganda is not necessary, unless to suggest that the Russian prisoners of war living in the countryside that the conditions of feeding urban populations leave much to be desired and that assistance in the form of imports from outside would be more urgent. - They will eventually set the gap, this. - On line.
It is quite different from Russian prisoners of war in factories, on construction sites of any kind and in the administration. In this case, it would be very helpful if employers support the patriotic duty to reduce, as appropriate, their days working at home. - On line!
All directors of companies subject to military law on the war effort and mining and military commanders are therefore all required to visit or inspect immediately all the locations Employees of Russian prisoners of war and act similarly on prisoners of war, as has been demanded already in camp commanders (under heading of the Ministerial Decree No. 14169/18). On-line.
The camp commander will visit the various housing units and establish personal contacts with Russian prisoners. (In a friendly voice.) Sometimes he will ask questions about their health and sometimes their parents, their food, mail, clothing. In case of complaints, it should lend itself to on-site investigation in detail, in public, before all prisoners of war. He must convince them that it spares no effort to discover the truth and do justice. It will use complaints about food and clothing to show the Russians that it is not our fault but that of our enemies to the west and that would give with joy more especially the Russian prisoners if we had more. Now the Russians, they are no longer our enemy. (More warm)
Moreover we have never seen as enemies, as evidenced by the many wars that saw former Russian and Austro-Hungarian fight valiantly side by side. The camp commander will visit from time to time in the kitchen when meat or fish are about to be distributed. It will take one, two or four at the moment or -
SECRETARY: What?
CAPTAIN: - at the moment they go with their food to be distributed to their beds. (With enthusiasm.) Place the bowl, bring the scale to weigh meat or fish. The more public the better. Then the account book, how meat has been purchased in total that day? Subtract 25% for bone, 20% for cooking, divide the remainder by the number of servings and (threatening) missing even if only 10 grams a serving - well over two hundred portions, for example, two kilos of meat or fish have been stolen. (Sévèrement.) Who did this? Power Commission, cooks, responsible for inspection, report! Severe trial to all prisoners of war of the dwelling. Consequence: layoff of cooks, supply and commission of all employees in the kitchen if the culprit is not found. At the door - ah line!
If the commander of the camp is among the Russians tobacco, cigarettes, bread bought from outside, sausage, and so he asked about the price that a particular prisoner of war had to pay. Soon they discovered that among the prisoners of war there are many traffickers. These followers of the black market are not always the Jews. They have contacts outside the camp to which they provide in time to resell the purchased items to their comrades, prisoners of war, three or four times more expensive. If the camp commander was able to catch such a trafficker - (Rageur.) naked, body search and excavation of the bag. Often, he will find him on 500 crowns or more. Confiscated and distributed among the other prisoners of war any sum exceeding those which it can justify the origin. On-line!
In the present circumstances, the Russian POWs listen to the commander of the camp for hours if he can give them information on trade. This is when our turn, how much longer? If he is able to prove to them by A plus B that is not our fault if the trade drag as prisoners of war will resume taste at work - except that it should not denigrate Russia. It would be a foul. - On line!
(With sentimentality.) The Russian hearts open wide, becoming larger when the colonel himself their say from time to time the latest news from Russia that he has gleaned in the Morgenblätter. (posing). With righteousness and obedience, they will welcome a hello, no breach of discipline is to be feared when he speaks to them. Everywhere, and here a fortiori, it must lead by example and also greet with all the righteousness that allows him his age and infirmities.
(Does the military hello.) A visit to the camp commander at the camp hospital - AN ASPIRING
(incoming) : Captain, with your permission, Colonel asks report on prisoners of war Russian.
CAPTAIN : Decree on propaganda? I devote myself, exactly. THE ASPIRING
: Not on the propaganda, the starved
E CAPTAIN: The dead of starvation? Where are they still starved? It was here, on this issue? THE ASPIRING
: This is the case of the Russian who was sleeping on a bed with two others who died of hunger. He was already in a state of decomposition when the inspector entered the room and the other two were so weak they could not get up nor call.
CAPTAIN: Minute - told the colonel that I will now examine the landings, but for now I'm in charge of propaganda, you know, to mitigate the impressions unfortunate prisoners of war and we can again establish a commercial relationship and then they send us food, the Russians, once they returned home, et cetera.
(Changement.)
Scene 22
Provincial Government in Brno.
GOVERNOR: I have an idea! (To his secretary.) among the most important lessons we can, we must learn from this deadly world war and the sacrifices it requires from the entire population, is certainly not the least the importance of education in the patriotic spirit that we must instill in our youth at school, knowledge and love of country, in its narrowest limits and the broader need to teach him, and all these seeds to plant in the child's soul will be born with these beautiful and manly qualities that make the young man able to satisfy as a fiery patriot, led by love and devotion to duty and loyalty to the imperial house and the homeland, and to do a conscientious and dedicated his civic duties, and to sacrifice even, where appropriate, his life and health for these ideals.
In Austria, alas, few preparations have been done in this direction, and I think it would be the duty of every person of the Empire to catch up and worry about the future development of feelings patriotic and dynastic generation to come, feelings that, thank God, are everywhere present in germ.
A small monthly magazine written in a popular style, adapted to the spirit of our educated youth, entitled Mladé Rakousko , will air in our schools primary and secondary schools and in our professional and I consider it a sacred duty of all our comrades in spirit and condition, as a noble task of our landowners, to support the dissemination of this month in the schools under its zone of economic influence by subscribing to a number of copies for these schools to make possible the free distribution of this monthly to students in need: we can not rightly expect only an effect on the students themselves themselves but also affect older members of families.
The annual subscription this review amounted to 2.40 kroner and can be purchased at Brno, 18, place of Emperor Francis Joseph.
May this appeal -
(changement.)
Scene 23
In a primary school.
few benches are empty. Children still alive undernourished. All have paper clothing.
ZEHETBAUER THE TEACHER: - - Beware of rumors in circulation and fight them as they should. The machiavellian enemies is to sow confusion in your ranks, but they will not succeed. Close your ears their allegations that we could not hold out until the happy ending and like what we would prevail in the famine. Who is responsible, otherwise the enemies? And now they even develop a business of poisoning wells, because - (A boy raises his finger.) What do you want, Gasselseder?
GASSELSEDER: Please, sir, then one has the right to drink anything?
THE TEACHER: Sitting, you're a fool, I have not spoken figuratively but literally! The enemy, unable to defeat us on the battlefield, intends to undermine our forces in the rear. Thus, Beware of rumors. Contribute to the most vigorous in their enforcement. They are part of the arsenal of our enemies - (A boy raises his finger.) What do you want, Anderle?
ANDERLE: Please, sir, our enemies as they have an arsenal?
THE TEACHER: Of course they have one, only it only contains rumors, and they will stop at nothing to undermine the edifice of the monarchy, or even loosen the bonds of love and veneration we attach to the imperial house. Kotzlik, you disturb the class, repeat what I just said.
KOTZLIK: Enemies - The enemy, they have - undermined the arsenal - and - we do not back down no link - that binds us to nothing -
THE TEACHER: Wrong topic! You will stay here after class and copy the sentence ten times which I command you. Sit, good for nothing! And you, be firm. Take this example on the Wooden Soldiers. As the imperial eagle of the Habsburgs, defying the symbol time, will evolve over our heads, it will remain upright, as built for eternity. Go to convince yourself, go there and do not hesitate to drive a nail, to the extent that there is still room for a nail, with permission gentlemen of your parents or guardians. By making you close your ears to the language sneaky because they dare even say that the days of wooden soldiers are numbered and that his place will soon find a sausage seller. Thank God we're not there yet and we willingly endure the hardships that the country imposes on us until victory is not definitively acquired but fluctuates from one camp to another. And yet! If we - (A boy raises his finger.) What do you want, Zitterer?
ZITTERER: Please sir, peace!
THE TEACHER: Sitting scamp! You, you will end when the rope around his neck you will enter into life, I'll predict. Sit, good for nothing! Are not you ashamed? And what happens there, the third largest? Merores, but you chatty!
Mérorès: Dad said he did not understand the enthusiasm for peace, he is not pressed, on the contrary, I think it's rather annoyed, he won a lot of money, and s' there will be peace, it will finish everything.
THE TEACHER: Merores, it is that your father takes good so valiantly and he gives the example, but you speak without anyone asks you and this is a sign that thanks threats of the enemy discipline has already strongly relaxed. I would not assume that you are in the pay of the enemy propaganda that has its antennas everywhere, but I must say, while the final decision is at our fingertips, such behavior seems highly suspect. I can only be hammered again and again: stick to your guns no matter what! What would happen if you had the same wobble? The enemy invade the country and then woe betide you, woe to your sisters and your promised woe to your parents or guardians gentlemen! (A boy raises his finger.) What do you want, Sukfüll?
SUKFÜLL: If Please, sir, aliens! My father, he said he no longer wants to hold on, there is more, it is high time that foreigners are coming!
CLASS: Yes, cultivate tourism!
THE TEACHER: No! It was not in that sense! Tourism is a sweet little plant that requires all our attention. Do you have the nostalgia of macaroni?
CLASS: Yes! We would like to have something to eat!
THE TEACHER: Bah! You're bad people! What a shame! What must you think of our late revered monarch whose portrait once you looked up there? He never could imagine that such a result when depravity was forced to take defensive deliberately provoked this war, and to draw the sword against a superior force in numbers. Woe betide you if the enemy invades the country! He descended into luxury hotels, would not it be funny to you, and our wives, homemakers would be for family expenses. Have you forgotten what I told you? I hope not!
CLASS: While the rugged warrior storm sweeps our land, our illustrious monarch called Weapons of thousands and thousands of our son and our brethren, the first emerging signs of increased tourism. So never lose sight of this ideal. Intone rather that old song you've learned previously in peacetime, Growing tourism! (They sing.)
A, a, a, the tourists are.
bleak times are over, finally
Foreigners flock.
A, a, a, the tourists are.
(Changement.)
Scene 24
A federation of Tourism.
THE EDITOR: - - to ask you a few statements on the organization of tourism after the war: whether measures have already been envisaged in this area.
THE LEADER: Of course. As you know, the days following the Congress of the Medical Corporations student, an exchange took place between representatives of groups specializing in corporate tourism student from Germany, Hungary and Austria.
THE EDITOR: It should probably expect that the problem of tourism after the war is considered totally angles new.
THE LEAD: Undoubtedly.
THE EDITOR: Would you please give me a hint on the first direction to be taken after the war the situation of our brothers in arms against tourism? There is no question that the enemy probably will not suffer losses in this field too?
THE CHARGE: In all likelihood, the Germans obviously did not make the scene of Belgian and French tourism.
THE EDITOR: You mean the Germans could not or would not want to go to these places?
THE GUARDIAN: I mean, the Germans will not want to go to these places. THE
EDITOR: So the Germans will doubtless seek replacements? I mean, places replacement in their own country?
THE LEAD: The German side offers plenty of places to replace the beaches of the North Sea.
THE EDITOR: But when the Germans they seek places to replace the Riviera? Reportedly, at home?
THE LEAD: The Austrian Adriatic coast is probably perfectly capable of replacing the Riviera with its climate benefits as a vacation in the spring and summer, it should therefore expect a large influx of tourists.
WRITER : By mentioning the Austrian Adriatic coast in opposition perhaps to the Italian coast, you want to say that in any case will always be the Adriatic -
THE CHARGE: - ours. Certainly, if the Germans would be forced to seek a replacement for the Adriatic as well.
THE EDITOR: If I understand correctly, you are of the opinion that it is mainly the German public that our tourism should take into account?
THE LEADER: Yes.
THE EDITOR: Let's cut to the chase. What will be the attractions we can offer to foreigners after the war, or rather what can we offer them possibly replacing monuments destroyed by war? For the Adriatic you rightly established a favorable prognosis. But what do we have to offer in addition?
THE CHARGE: In addition, the Alpine countries, with their superb memories of war will be a magnet for the tourist public of the Central Powers.
THE EDITOR: What kind of memories of war are seen in this area?
THE LEADER: We cherish the hope that the graves of our heroes in military cemeteries will the coming of many travelers. The aim is to again in our house value. And precisely on this point we appeal to the cooperation of the press because we have a responsibility to build attractions that holds each period, and that the graves of those who died in battle seem made expressly to authorize hope for a recovery in tourism.
(Changement.)
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