Word: figl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incumbent governor] were Franz Josef!...I'd rather spend my time chewing the fat with One-Eyed Danny Geegan of the Police Athletic League. At least I'm sure we got his vote. For all I know charming Elli [the professor's wife] wrote in one for Leopold Figl...
Thousands of solemn Austrians lined the streets of Vienna to pay their last respects to former Chancellor and Foreign Minister Leopold Figl. It was partly because Austrians love nothing better than a schöne Leich' (beautiful funeral), and this was the most elaborate since the Emperor Franz Josefs in 1916. But it was also because last week marked the tenth anniversary of the Austrian State Treaty, under which the Red Army left the country, and Figl was best remembered as the Foreign Minister who stood on the balcony of Belvedere Palace ten years ago, waving the morocco-bound...
Died. Leopold Figl, 62, Chancellor of Austria from 1945 to 1953, who spent six years in Nazi concentration camps, later founded the conservative People's Party and led a coalition regime until Julius Raab succeeded him, whereupon he became Foreign Minister, and in 1955 with Raab negotiated the end of Allied occupation; of cancer; in Vienna (see THE WORLD...
Back in 1953, when it still looked as if the Russians were going to occupy their zone of partitioned Austria forever, grassroots Politician Julius Raab in a friendly but firm way ousted his People's Party colleague, Leopold Figl, from the chancellorship. And although pro-Western Figl was kept on as Foreign Minister, Austria's relations with the Western powers were judiciously permitted to deteriorate until Raab, hat humbly in hand, could travel to Moscow as something of a neutral. On that trip in 1955, he took with him a delicate proposal: an offer of Austrian neutrality...