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...confusion on our side of the demarcation line is typified by the story of Salzburg. Captured on May 4, Salzburg has since been run by five different military government teams. No sooner would one set up shop than it would be superseded by another. So far the original team trained for this area has not arrived. When it will, no one knows. Each team operating in Salzburg has never known whether it would be here the following day to continue its job. Naturally, nobody is able to lay down any long-range plans or impress the Austrians with a clear...
...Problems facing the military government were as complicated as is the entire issue of Austria. To begin with, the Nazis had burned all the city records, including food-rationing files. Worst of all was the fact that Salzburg had always been plagued with a strong element of ardent Nazis, whose numbers were augmented by thousands who streamed in from Germany...
Already there are signs of Nazi underground activity. Salzburg streets throng with a motley array of hikers in lederhosen and rucksacks, sunburned Wehrmachters still wearing parts of uniforms, soldiers in Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav, Italian and other uniforms with doubtful political loyalties-a mélange which has made good hunting for the Army's Counterintelligence Corps. To deal with such a situation requires both a firm, coherent policy and a well-directed administration. So far we have lacked both...
...their immediate government, how the three areas are to be coordinated, what the requisites are for Austria becoming truly independent. Liaison with Russia is obviously poor. How much is Russia's fault and how much is ours, I do not know. Certainly the thread of confusion apparent in Salzburg is traceable to the highest levels of our three Allied governments...
...bridge over the muddy Salzach River, where it twists through troubled Salzburg, a U.S. Army sign says: "Free Swing Concert Tonight in the Mozart Theater." In Salzburg it is swing, in Vienna it is a tune somewhat more familiar to European ears. But unless the orchestras get together, the Austrians are more likely to listen to a new variation of that old Horst Wessel Lied, sung by men who are now fugitives in the mountains...