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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name Austria first appeared (as Osterrich) in a state document, signed by the Emperor Otto III, on Nov. 1, 996. In the grandiose neoclassic Parliament building on the Ringstrasse last week, Chancellor Leopold Figl glumly celebrated Austria's 950th birthday with a speech pleading for Austria's place on the planet: "The Austrian nation . . . appeals to the whole world to enable this state to remain a center of democratic peace and freedom in Europe...
Figl's speech was sandwiched between two secret sessions of Parliament-the first since 1918's dark days. Parliament decided that Austria, squeezed in the quadripartite grip of the Big Four and teetering on the verge of chaos, would seek a quick treaty and a quick end to occupation. Also: 1) removal of trade barriers; 2) restoration of Austrian gold as a currency cover; 3) return of war prisoners; 4) recognition of property owned by Austria in 1938 as still Austrian-owned; 5) membership...
Elected to Parliament...
Crossman left Oxford, where he spent his post-graduate years as a tutor and fellow, to run for Parliament in 1937. He was defeated, but was elected Labor M.P. for Coventry in the 1945 general election with a majority of some 18,000 over Conservative, Communist, and Liberal opponents...
...mask like Castlereagh.) Contemptuous of parliamentary and public opinion, antiliberal, cold-blooded Castlereagh desired the independence of Poland, Saxony, Genoa, but when he found these aims were unattainable he set them aside. "The Congress of Vienna," he said bluntly to his furious critics in Parliament, "was not assembled for the discussion of moral principles, but for great practical purposes, to establish effectual provisions for the general security...