And This Was My Country
(World News Austria)

Lately, I`ve been reading Frederic Morton`s brilliant study of Vienna during the years 1913-1914- Thunder at Twilight, the follow-up to A Nervous Splendor -with a particular interest in one question: How did Austrian artists and intellectuals respond to the dawning of the First World War? The short answer is, with incredible zeal. As Europe readied itself for mass conflict, the likes of Arnold Schoenberg, Oskar Kokoschka, Adolf Loos, and Sigmund Freud could barely contain their excitement. ......