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Readymade Opportunity. In its countermeasures, the Nationalist government was at its most inept. On their way to the congress at Kliptown, many of the "delegates" were hauled out of their trucks and cars by cops on the pretext that they did not have proper papers. Police photographers shot pictures of every white man attending the congress, including newsmen ("Just for the record," they explained), and at one point, armed police forced the male delegates to empty their pockets and the women to turn out their handbags, on the suspicion that some of them were carrying "inflammatory material...
...nearly lost out, not to his navy rebels but to his army saviors. They had an inviting pretext to dump him: his politically embarrassing and unprofitable quarrel with the Roman Catholic Church...
Spotting Snags. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. ("Tommy") Thompson was quick to spot the snag. Keeping Article 35 in the treaty, he pointed out, would give the Soviet Union a permanent legal pretext for reviving its claims on Austria, should Moscow ever decide to welsh on its deal with Raab. Washington, London and Paris supported Thompson's stand. John Foster Dulles made it plain that he would not fly to Vienna to sign the Austrian treaty unless Ilyichev yielded. The result was a compromise: Article 35 was left in the treaty, but a note was attached, binding the Russians...
...mention was made of what would happen to the 30,000 Red army soldiers that Moscow keeps in Hungary on the excuse that they guard the supply route to its occupation forces in Austria. But few doubted that Russian soldiers would still be there, under some pretext or other, come freedom for Austria...
...presumably allow the Russians to march back on the pretext that Germany was threatening an Anschluss. But in the joy of the moment, such considerations were ignored. Thousands of Austrians flocked to the airport to welcome the triumphant travelers. For the first time since Hitler marched in in 1938, Austria was within sight of a time without a foreign soldier on its soil. Cheering crowds lined the 20-mile route to Vienna, crowded the square outside the chancellery. Twice, Raab had to come out and speak. Some in the crowd wept, and Chancellor Raab's voice broke with emotion...