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From his excursion to the Paris Peace Conference, handsome Foreign Minister Dr. Karl Gruber returned to Vienna with the undimmed conviction that he was Austria's brightest young statesman. About the first thing he encountered, back in Austria, was a band of irate Tyrolese in leather shorts, who called him a traitor and spat on him (because he had agreed to South Tyrol's so-called autonomy under Italian tutelage). Gruber knocked down one of his assailants, but the homecoming was spoiled...
...disagreeable episode was only the first of several. Gruber's own party colleagues were annoyed with him for taking too much of the limelight in Paris. Parliamentary committees were mad at him for failure to report home before taking .Austria's first major foreign policy decision. When he faced Parliament last week, the delegates did not exactly spit on him, but it was a close-thing. Gruber managed to keep his job by the skin of his teeth...
...other hand, every new U.S. move to aid Austria and check Russian encroachments provoked shivers of Austrian fear that Russia might take offense. Thus reports that Gruber planned to negotiate an Austro-Italian customs union, as a first step toward further entangling alliances with the West, caused a political panic which subsided only slightly when Gruber publicly repudiated extreme Westward orientation and came out for a middle course...
...Double Game. With exemplary skill, Communist propagandists in Austria played on every Austrian fear and vexation, made the most of every Allied slip. The Communist press rang with patriotic fervor and anti-Gruber denunciations over the Tyrol question. No mention was made of the fact that Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov had consistently opposed Austria's demands for South Tyrol...
...Paris Peace Conference last week chalked up the following achievements: 1) with the first Germanic accents heard by the conference, Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber asked for a new deal on South Tyrol; 2) eleven small powers on the Italian Political and Territorial Commission voted down the Big Four and the Soviet bloc in recommending that the treaty preamble should say that Italy had "undertaken," not "declared...