Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris Foreign Ministers' conference last spring (TIME, June 27), it looked as though the Russians had finally agreed to an Austrian peace treaty-in exchange for Western concessions (e.g., $150 million reparations from Austria). But this month, when the ministers met again in New York (taking time out from the U.N. General Assembly), it appeared that, as usual, the Russians were trying to sell the same horse twice. The new Soviet price for an Austrian settlement included: ¶ Some 95% of Austrian oil output, 35% more than agreed upon at Paris. ¶ A large percentage of the rolling stock...
...Free'movement on Austrian waterways, ownership of all Austrian shipping taken over by the Germans, and control of Austrian docking facilities. (As far as shipping goes, the Russians have already seized almost everything worthwhile...
...lead paragraph of your October 14 editorial, entitled "The New Nazis," may have provided journalistic punch, but it also presented a distorted view of the Austrian League of Independents, which captured about 12 per cent of the votes in the recent Austrian elections...
Today Russian soldiers are no curiosity in the city of the Hapsburgs. Four power patrols drive through streets unmarked by zone borders. Only occasionally do you see a sign announcing: "You are now entering the American sector." But you never see an Austrian talking with Soviet soldier. The Russian troops are pariahs in a hostile culture, seldom even asked for streetcar fare by the conductor...
...rather than attempting to unload some of its population into more productive work elsewhere, the Occupation and the Austrian government are reconstructing its old magnificence for what can only be a minor role in the future. The thousands of refugees who field the city and the Russians in 1945 have returned from the Western zones...