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Articles 16 & 17. As it began, the Austrians, still numbly happy over the promises Chancellor Julius Raab brought back from Moscow (TIME, April 25), were uncontrollably hopeful; the representatives of the U.S.. Britain and France were visibly skeptical. Russia's Ambassador Ivan I. Ilyichev, enwrapped in a baggy brown suit, was briskly ready for business...
Onto the table went the 59-article Austrian treaty over which Russia and the West had bickered so persistently and so long. By day's end, Ilyichev had blandly, almost impatiently, acceded changes and omissions that Moscow had held out against for months, and the first 15 articles were disposed of. On the second day, surprise changed to disillusionment...
...third day, Article 16 came up again, and Ilyichev, obviously redirected by signal from Moscow, remarked matter-of-factly: "If you don't agree to the wording of this article, I suggest we eliminate it altogether." The Western ambassadors asked for a second translation of Ilyichev's remarks. The translator had not erred...
...favor to bring over some tickets to an ice revue. Sokolowski, who knew many Russians in the course of the city's dealings with the occupation authorities, obligingly took them over to the Soviet High Commission building. There he was ushered into the office of High Commissioner Ivan Ilyichev, and abruptly arrested as a "deserter and traitor...
Steaming with indignation, Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab himself stalked into Ilyichev's office to protest. Blandly, Ilyichev produced the dossier, which included a picture of Sokolowski in a German uniform and a 1944 Austrian police record listing him as a deserter from the Russian army. The Russians had thoughtfully stolen both from Vienna police headquarters in 1945, tucked them away for use in their own time...