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...rally in the Konzerthaus, earnest, 75-year-old Dr. Karl Renner, provisional Chancellor, gave 10,000 Viennese some stirring news: Socialist, Communist and Volkspartei leaders had united to demand return of the South Tyrol, which Italy had taken after World War I. The Big Five Foreign Ministers had tabled the appeal at London, but at least they had not killed...
...Renner government, sponsored by the Russians, still lacked the endorsement of the U.S., Britain and France. But U.S. General Mark W. Clark, in the rotating Allied Council chairmanship, had approved Dr. Renner's plan for a conference of provincial representatives from all three parties...
Recognition was in the works. But the Renner regime seemed unable to please everybody. On U. S. and British advice it shied away from a thinly veiled Russian scheme to cut in on the big Zistersdorf oil fields. Last week Red Army officers reportedly took over at Zistersdorf, booted the Austrian managers...
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...
Both Socialist and Volkspartei members vigorously deny that the government was formed under pressure from either Austrian Communists or Russians. To Allied eyes the Renner Government looked like a put-up job when the first news came over the Moscow radio. Now the Austrians insist that Renner sent notification simultaneously to Britain, the U.S. and Russia, but that for some mysterious reason the messages to Washington and London never got through Russian censorship...