Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gold & Yalta. The Soviet Government, in its own analysis of the Hungarian crisis, had charged that the U.S. was keeping in its German and Austrian zones $3 billion of property which the Nazis had taken from Hungary. Said the U.S. note: "The [Soviet estimate] is grossly exaggerated. The most important single item of Hungarian property in the American zones appears to be ... gold . . . which amounts to approximately $32,000,000." This gold is now on its way back to Budapest...
Silently, seriously, Austria's Parliament met in its badly bombed white building near what was lately called the Adolf Hitler Platz. Representatives of one of the weakest nations in Europe, they nevertheless held their ground while Figl read to them what amounted to a Russian attempt to dictate Austrian legislation. The Parliament had before it Figl's bill to nationalize 81 industries, amounting to 50% of the country's production. The Russian note asked for 25 exceptions on the ground that they were "German assets" and therefore could be seized by Russia under the Potsdam agreement...
...nationalization issue had forced Austrian parties into unusual positions. Chancellor Figl's own Catholic People's Party, suspected of being cool toward nationalization, warmed to it markedly when it seemed the most direct way of opposing Russian penetration. The Communists, having loudly called for drastic nationalization measures, did not dare back down even under the threat of fierce Russian displeasure...
...greatest embalming job of the 20th Century was the mummification of V. I. Lenin. Until last week, the technique had always remained a dark secret of Soviet science. Finally, Dr. Herwig Hamperl, famed Austrian pathologist who taught in Moscow and was a close friend of the embalmers, let the world in on some of the secret...
...time. In London, bespectacled Buddha-like Tass Chief Alexander Sverlov has a staff of 25 putting out the Soviet Monitor, an English-language paper that is free for all who want it. In Vienna where its news and pictures are also free Tassmen have been a little piqued because Austrian editors prefer to pay for fresher A.P., U.P. or Reuter news...