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...Armistice Day. Just outside Vienna, in the Russian occupation zone, a U.S. Army jeep turned into a side road. Between the dark, heavy-set U.S. soldier at the wheel and the slight, fair-haired soldier on the right cowered an Austrian civilian named Oswald Eder. "Where are you taking me?" he cried. The smaller soldier jammed a gun into his ribs and snarled: "Shut up!" The jeep stopped, and at gunpoint, his escorts forced Eder into the waiting arms of seven Russian agents who set upon him with fists and revolver butts...
...beating are nothing unusual in occupied Vienna, where the bare description of a day's events is apt to read like a Raymond Chandler thriller; since 1945, Russians have kidnaped 660 people in Vienna, usually political "suspects." What was unusual and shocking about the abduction of Oswald Eder on Armistice Day was that it was executed by American G.I.s who had hired themselves out to the Russians...
...lived for two years with an expatriate young Austrian ski instructor. Daughter of one French army officer and wife of another, she has given up her family and her marriage and stood up proudly to the criticism and contempt of the conservative villagers, all to win and keep Ferdl Eder's "blond alien flesh." Eder had lost his country when Hitler took Austria. When he wanted to visit his family in Austria, he had to apply for a German passport. To Corinne his act seemed a compromise with Hitlerism and a betrayal of her love. She persuaded...
Winthrop--lf, McGiffert; 1b, Forster; p, Bixler; 2b, Ways; ss, Nicholson; c, Aloian; 3b, Welsh; cf, Wallace; rf, Ecob, Williams. Leverett--2b, Hollingshead; lf, Eder; 3b, Holober; 1b, Thorn; cf, Cameren; c, McKearney; p, Melahn; ss, Sears; rf, Culler...
Leverett--cf, Holober; ss, Melahn; lb, Heelzer; lf, Eder; p, Cameron; c, Thorn; 3b, Palmer; 2b, Lenherr; rf, Hollings-head. Lowell--c, Richardson; p. Bonner, Frisch; lb, Gardner; 2b, Silver; 3b, Guild; ss, Broad; lf, Gander, Gardiner; cf, Lane, Smith; rf, Blount...