Word: renner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Karl Renner, 75 (whose provisional...
government is recognized by Russia but not by the U.S. and Britain), is the lowest paid chief of state in Europe. Like all Austrian government employes, he receives 150 shillings ($15) a month. As Chancellor, Dr. Renner, a longtime Social Democrat, provisionally holds the presidency and portfolios of Foreign and Military Affairs. Of his nine ministers, three are members of the Volkspartei (old Christian Socialists), two are Socialists, two Communists and two without party affiliation...
Moscow lifted its blackout of news from Austria. A terse Tass dispatch from Vienna reported: a conference of Austrian political parties had proclaimed a new "Austrian Provisional Government." Chancellor and Foreign Minister was aging (74) Dr. Karl Renner, veteran Social Democrat, head of the Austrian peace delegation in 1919, first Chancellor of the Austrian Republic (1919-20). Thirteen other Cabinet posts were parceled among a coalition of Social Democrats (four), Christian Social (four), Communists (three) and Independents...
...given the strategic Interior Ministry (police). Smooth-talking Ernst Fischer held the Ministry of Education and Religion, where he would dispense propaganda and handle Catholic Austria's relations with the Vatican. This Communist trio (all just returned from exile in Moscow) seemed the real power behind Dr. Renner...
...Richard Farnsworth Hunnewell, Paul James Kirby, Robert Galen Knight, Francis Edward Lawlor, George Knowlton Lewis, Gustaf Berg Lindquist, Stuart McCarty, Joseph Berard McGrath, Charles Fessenden Morse, 3d., George Nakhnikian, Richard Ober, John Aloysius O'Keefe, 3d., Austin Gill Olney, William Preston Palmer, Jr., Bruce Brandon Phemister, Gerard William Renner, Charles Snelling Robinson, 2d., James Tracy Ronan, Constantine Constantine Spillotakis, Albert Myer Starr, Donald Bruce Talmage, Michael Barrett Thompson, Samuel Lombard Tucker, Charles Bingham Penrose Van Pelt, Burton Ebert Van Vort, John Damien Walsh, Phillips Noble Weeks, Phillips Whidden, Richard Robinson Wood, Edward Woodward...