The entire Austrian cabinet stands assembled, for today is a day of terrible significance. Today, Austria must decide how to maintain its freedom, and, God willing, take away the freedoms of some others. Both Chancellor KURT SCHUSCHNIGG and President WILHELM MIKLAS are in attendence. The meeting is called to order.
The title theme for Rent begins playing. The Government bursts into a flurry of movement.
Then everyone except KURT and WILHELM freezes in a group.
[KURT]
How do you run a German Reich
When the most German-minded
Would rather see it die?
Ethnic states, sovereign lands,
Vaterland
And now this demand:
“Let us unify!”
Anschluss!
[WILHELM]
How do you rule a fascist state
When the countries you hate
Are the ones who ensure your right to “be”?
You sit and you cower
When you once had the power
To bring foes to their knees!
[KURT]
Now we’re payin’ the cost
[WILHELM]
For that war that we lost
[KURT and WILHELM]
How we gonna stop
How we gonna stop
How we gonna stop
This Anschluss?
[KURT]
We disband the Heimwehr
[NOTE: moved political slider once to the left; government is now Paternal Autocrat]
[WILHELM]
How do you arm the lot
When your manpower’s shot
And your resource lands are fresh new regimes?
[KURT]
How can you retake your place
So far back in the race
[KURT and WILHELM]
So far back it’s obscene?
[KURT]
You claim ethnic cores
[WILHELM]
[approaches the map of Europe, making a mark south of Austria] Like Trento –
[KURT]
[also approaches the map, making a mark to the north] And Tábor!
[KURT and WILHELM]
How we gonna stop
How we gonna stop
How we gonna stop
This Anschluss?
[Lights go over from Austria and east toward Hungary, to Regent MIKLÓS HORTHY DE NAGYBÁNYA, who's on a phone]
[MIKLÓS]
Benito, listen
It’s me – Miklós
You know, the regent of Hungary
Hey hey hey! (How’s Ethiopia?)
Well you should know that Austria’s invading
But Benny – do you really want old Austria back?
He won’t declare war
He won’t declare war
Hitler won’t attack ---
They haven’t taken every core (exactly)
But it doesn’t really look very bright
You got our back, right?
The title theme for Rent begins playing. The Government bursts into a flurry of movement.
Then everyone except KURT and WILHELM freezes in a group.
[KURT]
How do you run a German Reich
When the most German-minded
Would rather see it die?
Ethnic states, sovereign lands,
Vaterland
And now this demand:
“Let us unify!”
Anschluss!
[WILHELM]
How do you rule a fascist state
When the countries you hate
Are the ones who ensure your right to “be”?
You sit and you cower
When you once had the power
To bring foes to their knees!
[KURT]
Now we’re payin’ the cost
[WILHELM]
For that war that we lost
[KURT and WILHELM]
How we gonna stop
How we gonna stop
How we gonna stop
This Anschluss?
[KURT]
We disband the Heimwehr
[NOTE: moved political slider once to the left; government is now Paternal Autocrat]
[WILHELM]
How do you arm the lot
When your manpower’s shot
And your resource lands are fresh new regimes?
[KURT]
How can you retake your place
So far back in the race
[KURT and WILHELM]
So far back it’s obscene?
[KURT]
You claim ethnic cores
[WILHELM]
[approaches the map of Europe, making a mark south of Austria] Like Trento –
[KURT]
[also approaches the map, making a mark to the north] And Tábor!
[KURT and WILHELM]
How we gonna stop
How we gonna stop
How we gonna stop
This Anschluss?
[Lights go over from Austria and east toward Hungary, to Regent MIKLÓS HORTHY DE NAGYBÁNYA, who's on a phone]
[MIKLÓS]
Benito, listen
It’s me – Miklós
You know, the regent of Hungary
Hey hey hey! (How’s Ethiopia?)
Well you should know that Austria’s invading
But Benny – do you really want old Austria back?
He won’t declare war
He won’t declare war
Hitler won’t attack ---
They haven’t taken every core (exactly)
But it doesn’t really look very bright
You got our back, right?
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