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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...
...returned to Vienna with the undimmed conviction that he was Austria's brightest young statesman. About the first thing he encountered, back in Austria, was a band of irate Tyrolese in leather shorts, who called him a traitor and spat on him (because he had agreed to South Tyrol's so-called autonomy under Italian tutelage). Gruber knocked down one of his assailants, but the homecoming was spoiled...
...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...
...Paris Peace Conference last week chalked up the following achievements: 1) with the first Germanic accents heard by the conference, Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber asked for a new deal on South Tyrol; 2) eleven small powers on the Italian Political and Territorial Commission voted down the Big Four and the Soviet bloc in recommending that the treaty preamble should say that Italy had "undertaken," not "declared...