Anti-Austrian sentiment

Not to be confused with Anti-Australian sentiment.

Anti-Austrian sentiment (also known as Austrophobia) refers to hostile sentiment toward Austria and/or Austrians.

The 19th century British Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, famously said in 1880 that "in the whole world it was impossible to place a finger on a spot and say, 'Here Austria did good'." In the following years, Gladstonian Liberals in Britain frequently repeated this saying. ^[1]

References

1. May, Arthur J. (February 1961). "R. W. Seton-Watson and British Anti-Hapsburg Sentiment" . The American Slavic and East European Review. 20 (1). Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies: 41. doi:10.2307/3001244. JSTOR   3001244 . Retrieved 2 May 2025.