as that which caused the second mistake.
Its founder thought that if the Christian Socialist 5^ MY STRUGGLE Party was to save Austria it ought not to take its stand not on the racial principle, since a general dissolution of the State would shortly follow in any case. The leaders of the Party considered that the situation in Vienna demanded all possible avoidance of tendencies towards disruption, and support of all points of view conducing to unity.
Vienna was at that time so strongly impregnated with Czech elements that nothing but extreme tolerance in regard to all racial problems could keep that Party from being anti-German from the start. If Austria was to be saved, that Party could not be dispensed with. Thus they made special efforts to win the very large number of small Czech traders in Vienna by opposing the Manchester Liberal school of thought, and they hoped thereby to have discovered a war-cry for the fight against Judaism, based on religion, which would put all differences of race in the old Austria in the shade.