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...airline gate at Washington's National Airport, two tall and solid-looking men stood chatting volubly in German. At departure time the two shook hands and murmured "auf wiedersehen." Then Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab entered the plane. His companion, State Department Protocol Officer John Farr Simmons, waited at the gate until the plane was aloft; then he turned and hurried back to his desk at the State Department...
...Jack Simmons, 62, the chore of seeing Chancellor Raab off was just part of one of the most exacting, endless jobs in the world: representing the U.S. in all non-political relations with foreign officials. As the Government's top public-relations man, Simmons is as busy as the White Rabbit in the garden of the Queen of Hearts. He is the VIP's avenue to President Eisenhower, a caterer who solves some global gastronomic problems,* handyman for royalty, custodian of the Great Seal of the United States, and Washington's most indefatigable partygoer...
Soviet High Commissioner Ivan I. Ilyichev, ordinarily a phlegmatic and silent man, last week summoned Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab and Vice Chancellor Adolf Scharf to his headquarters for a dressing down. Ilyichev accused the government, the two major parties, and particularly the Austrian police force (which operates under Austrian control, technically independent of the four-power Allied Control Council), of "hostile and subversive activities against the Soviet authorities and Soviet occupation forces." If the Austrians didn't do something about it, Ilyichev threatened, Russia would...
Chancellor Raab spunkily rebuffed the charges. He denied, for example, that veterans' leagues were getting out of hand and agitating for Anschluss (reunion with Germany); he admitted that anti-Soviet literature and posters might be circulating in the Soviet zone, but disavowed it on behalf of the government and police. He was backed up by his Cabinet and by nearly every member of the Parliament...
Most disappointed of the Europeans were 7,000,000 Austrians. Their hopes of a treaty had been highest. For a year, Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab had been dickering with the Russians behind the allies' back, offering to neutralize Austria in return for the evacuation of the Red army. Now Raab was humiliated. The fiasco at Berlin had moved his countrymen like few events in their national experience. People's Party newspapers appeared with black bands of mourning. The Socialists, who opposed Raab's playing footsie with the Communists, would not let him forget...