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...Declaration of 1943, Russia had agreed that Austria should be treated as a liberated country. After 374 discussions over seven years, "every conceivable nook and cranny," as Dulles pointed out. had been explored. All that remained to be done was to reach agreement on five disputed articles. Chancellor Julius Raab was willing and even eager to pledge Austria's neutrality. Foreign Minister Leopold Figl was sent to Berlin prepared to accept the heavy price demanded by the Russians for Austria's freedom-payment of $150 million for German war assets captured by the Russians, Russian rights to exploit...
...Gruber memoirs, there appeared one day a chapter relating how Austrian Communists sat down with leaders of Gruber's own Catholic People's Party in 1947 to negotiate a partnership. People's Party leaders-including, implied Gruber, ex-Chancellor Leopold Figl and the present Chancellor Julius Raab-agreed to force the militantly anti-Red Socialists out of the coalition government and to make a Communist stooge Chancellor, in return for concessions from Moscow. "Such a catastrophe and criminal nonsense must be prevented," Gruber recalls himself as saying then. He credited himself with telling the Socialists...
Still undenied, however, are the embarrassing indications that the solidly conservative. Catholic-dominated People's Party-the favorite of the Western occupiers in Austria-was trying to play house with the Communists. Chancellor Raab, who has been able to make some political capital out of Russia's recent small concessions to the Austrians, has reportedly planned a trip to Moscow in hopes of "buying" a removal of Soviet occupation forces from the country. According to British Socialist M.P. Richard Grossman, reporting last week from Vienna to London's left-wing New Statesman and Nation, Raab recently sounded...
...deadlock was broken. A new coalition cabinet was formed. The neo-Nazis were excluded, which was a victory for the Socialists. But the rightists in the People's Party also won, for Figl was out as Chancellor, and in his place was a blunt, tough-talking engineer, Julius Raab, a right-winger. Raab, 61, was a charter member of the Heimwehr, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg's private fascist army back in the late '20s; in 1930 he took the famous Heimwehr oath, ". . . We reject the democratic western Parliament . . ."; in 1938 he served briefly...
Socialists respect Raab for being a man of his word and for speaking it frankly but detest his politics. Chances are that before long, Austria will be wishing for the return of Figl's famous balancing...