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After Jimmy Carter's visit to Vienna for the signing of SALT II, all of the U.S. embassy staff in the Austrian capital received notes from White House Staff Assistant Dan Lee. The notes were a nice touch, but the contents left diplomats shaking their heads. Wrote...
...Israelis were outraged when Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was received in Vienna by Chancellor Bruno Kreisky with a welcome almost befitting a head of state. Israel recalled its ambassador from Vienna, and Begin left no doubt that he felt Kreisky was a Jewish traitor. The Austrian Chancellor said that he and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who also joined the talks, had "gained the impression" that the P.L.O. "no longer insisted on the destruction of Israel." Arafat, however, gave no sign that the P.L.O. was backing down on the Middle East peace accords, which...
EXPLODING STAR: A YOUNG AUSTRIAN AGAINST HITLER by Fritz Molden Morrow; 280 pages...
...question will not go away. When the cattle cars with their human cargoes rumbled off for Auschwitz, where were the righteous in the Third Reich? Each of these three books seeks answers, and in sum they are heartening. Fritz Molden, himself a fighter in the Austrian resistance, puts it best in Exploding Star: "Where there are people who disrupt, destroy and torture there are also, beyond all doubt, others who help, heal and support...
...short-lived. Maass details the lightning arrests-76,000 political undesirables jailed even before Hitler entered Vienna. He charts the merciless Aryanization of businesses and the swift disappearance of Jews from public life. He records the beginnings of a resistance that would grow through the war: 13 young Austrians refusing to take an oath of allegiance to Hitler; Socialist Otto Haas, building his network of anti-Nazi information; Father Roman Karl Scholz founding his Austrian Freedom Movement. All were caught and executed...