Word: tyrol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived after him in a tale told by a German slave-laborer. The laborer, who said he had worked as a U.S. counter-intelligence agent after V-E day, claimed he had found Frau Martin Bormann, wife of Hitler's chief deputy, operating a kindergarten in the Austrian Tyrol in 1945. He also found that she was dying of cancer. The agent reported his discovery to Third Army HQ, was told General Patton's decision: "The woman should be allowed to die in peace." She did, a few months later, said the agent...
Gruber, who is his country's Foreign Minister and was a leader of the resistance movement during the war, has recently achieved prominence by his handling of the Southern Tyrol hand-over in the Paris Peace Conference. He is now in the U. S. to seek Austrian admission to UN membership, a move which has been seconded by Secretary Byrnes...
Gruber is in this country at present to negotiate possible admission of Austria into the United Nations. A leader in the underground in Tyrol during the war, he now heads the liberal wing of the Catholic Peoples Party in Austria and has been mentioned as successor to the present Chancellor. He was prominent in the work of the Paris Peace Conference, where the settlement of the minority problem in Tyrol was hailed by General Smuts as the "only successful arrangement which came out of the Conference." His work in the United States has been met with partial success already, with...
Franz Lehar, reported the Paris press, was at his villa in the Austrian Tyrol, recovering from an eye operation, and working on his 34th operetta...
...Double Game. With exemplary skill, Communist propagandists in Austria played on every Austrian fear and vexation, made the most of every Allied slip. The Communist press rang with patriotic fervor and anti-Gruber denunciations over the Tyrol question. No mention was made of the fact that Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov had consistently opposed Austria's demands for South Tyrol...