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...first full year of independence, Austria's answer was clear: not since the days of Emperor Franz Josef has the country been so gemutlich; never has it been so prosperous. As the troops pulled out, the tourists moved in. By last August, Chancellor Julius Raab's government announced, the nation's tourist revenues reached a record $100 million, exceeding the previous high set during all of last year by 20%. There was not a hotel room to be had in Vienna, though two new hotels-the Am Stephansplatz and the Auersperg-had just been completed...
Austria, after 17 years of occupation (first by the Nazis, then by the Four Powers), has been free a year, and reveling in prosperity. Even its politics reflects contentment: for ten years the People's Party of Chancellor Julius Raab and its principal opponents, the Socialists, have shared a happy but energetically disputatious coalition government...
...Election Day a remarkable 96% of the eligible voters, mellowed by warm spring sunshine and batches of Heurigen (new wine), went to the polls in Free Austria's first national election. Result: a gain of eight Parliament seats-to 82-for Chancellor Raab's party, an increase in Socialist seats from 73 to 74. Both parties gained at the expense of the far right and left (Communist groups polled only 4.4% of the vote), but the victory of Raab's party presaged a slowdown in Austria's headlong nationalization...
...Township polling place north of Gettysburg a damp snow fell; in the small frame building a potbelly stove glowed comfortably as a dozen early risers politely stepped back to allow their famed neighbor the first primary vote. Dwight Eisenhower grinned a good morning, accepted his ballot from Clerk Herbert Raab, ducked into the farthest of five bunting-draped booths and took 60 seconds to mark his choices for "President of the United States" and 14 other offices. He reappeared to slip the folded paper into a ballot box, then drove off through the snow to Harrisburg to board the Columbine...
...militarily a neutral state," he declared, "but there is no neutrality of spirit for us, and therefore no 'neutralism.' " Simultaneously, Raab let it be known that Austria had decided not to accept Russia's offer of a $20 million loan, but had agreed instead to accept an American loan on the same easy terms...