Word: raab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...much topflight art has funneled into U.S. collections in recent years that today a tour of major U.S. museums has become a must on the agenda of many a foreign visitor, including Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth. Japan's ex-Premier Yoshida. Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab. Arriving in Washington on state business. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer went to the National Gallery of Art for his fourth visit in three U.S. trips...
...followed by another Don Giovanni the night after that. Last week singers were rehearsing on the new stage, gilders were applying the last touches of gold leaf to the auditorium, and the occupying powers seemed to be doing their best to comply with Chancellor Julius Raab's special plea: please leave the country before opening night...
...including the Danube Shipping Co. and a 30-year title to some 60% of Austrian oil properties. In its anxiety to get an Austrian treaty signed, the West was willing, as late as 1954, to accept Article 35. Actually, the article was superseded last month when Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab flew to Moscow and agreed to buy back the German assets with a ransom of $2,000,000 cash, 10 million tons of oil and $150 million worth of manufactured goods in ten years. Russian Ambassador Ivan I. Ilyichev insisted that Article 35 remain in the treaty, on the ground...
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...
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...