The Archive · 1934

Meaning of Restoration

"Restoration is not reaction. Restoration means the preservation Jot the things that were good in the past and their application to the situation that now exists. Now parliamentary government has died in austria, It died of its own incapajolty. Whatever happens to Austria in the future, this factor will have to Ibe taken into account.

"This does not mean that there Jany likelihood of or desire for a return to an absolutist system. That too is of the past. But there are new forms of state organization which thave arisen as a consequence of the [new conditions under which men live. Jthe most interesting of these new forms of state to my mind is the cor-Jporative state. There are possibilities fin the corporative state for a development of professional, industrial representation and an economic re-Jorganization of society which seem to Ime to bear the seeds of success, ter all the basis of the success jot a state, of the happiness and the prosperity' of its citizens, are two; Jeconomic and religious. My idea of the corporative state is based chiefly fon the Quadragesimo Anna the encyllical issued by His Holiness, and to [which Chancellor Dollfuss has 50 fatten referred.

"Altogether it seems to me quite Jmapossible to have any sound system lot government that does not proceed from the prime source of all things lof this universe, I mean from God Himself. To a believer in God, of

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