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...Manhattan, after the traditional motor drive to City Hall where he received the city's Medal of Honor, Dr. Leopold Figl, Chancellor of Austria, was luncheon guest of honor at the Overseas Press Club. There he accepted a bouquet and a buss from nine-year-old Emmi Mattesich, all dressed up in her best Austrian costume. In a serious mood, Figl told reporters: "We in central Europe today are the easternmost outpost of the free world and we are determined to defend this bastion. To achieve this we must rely upon the moral and material help of the free...
...American method of treating visiting celebrities seemed to astonish Austria's Chancellor Leopold Figl, who, arriving at the White House, had to face still another crew of cameramen. Said he to his host: "When people come to the U.S., they think they are coming to a democracy, but it is a photocracy...
...kind of European politician Americans rarely see, Leopold Figl, Chancellor of Austria, was on his way to the U.S. for a state visit this week. Figl is a simple man with uncommon pluck; he has managed for six years to preside over a little country full of scenery, ruins and history which is host to four occupying armies and is surrounded on three sides by Communist states. He has done it by combining American dollars with his Austrian courage and a Viennese belief in the effircacy of prayer, optimism and wine...
...around the Ring, in the Heurigen (wine gardens) of Vienna's cobbled suburbs, Figl's country manners, wine tippling, and his let-it-go-till-tomorrow administration are the butts of the people's jokes (and Figl's). They call him "Leopold the Last," but they love...
...Leopold Stokowski...