Word: figl
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Immediately after his election President Renner stepped over to Vienna's Presidential Building to swear in his successor as Chancellor, Leopold Figl, head of the Volkspartei. He also swore in the Figl Cabinet-as amended...
...Russians had not sought to increase the meager Communist representation (one) in Chancellor Figl's 15-man Cabinet. But they insisted on using their veto power on the Control Council in a way that indicated Russia's long-range intention of watching closely Austria's internal politics. Austria would not be added to the list of Russian-dominated countries; neither would it be fully independent...
When Hitler came, Figl, who opposed Anschluss, obscurely and honorably disappeared into concentration camps, first Dachau, then Flossenburg. After six years the Nazis slipped up, set him free. Promptly Figl set to work as an organizer in what little underground movement Austria developed. He represented the Austrian resistance in contacts with the much stronger Polish underground. After liberation he founded the Volkspartei of small agrarians, much like Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party...
...Vatican, which keeps a close eye on Austrian developments, was delighted with Figl's victory. Informally, Vatican circles last week called it "clear proof of Austria's intention to tread the middle path between leftist extremism and out-of-date conservatism in harmony with the great, widespread European movement, now apparent, toward progressive moderation...
...last week Leopold Figl had charted his first objectives for Austria: 1) reduction in the size of the Allied occupation armies; 2) a foreign policy turned toward the West, but hoping to bridge East and West; 3) solution of food and fuel problems. Point three was crucial. Said Figl: "Only a government that, with Allied help, can provide food and fuel, will survive...