Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Russians entered Vienna last year, a party of Red Army surgeons stomped into the Hospital for Accidents. "Where is Bohler?" they demanded. "We want the nail." Dr. Lorenz Bohler, one of the best orthopedic surgeons in Europe was away-in a French prison camp. But the Russians got "the nail." By last week most of the rest of Europe had it too. The nail,* which Austrian Surgeon Bohler had used with wide success, is a remarkable device for mending broken bones, especially broken thighbones...
...have been complied with," but reserved final action until Tito had fully "made right the wrong." In Belgrade, press and radio continued to charge repeated violations of Yugoslavia's sovereign air, accused the U.S. of a "campaign of calumny." This, week the U.S. transport service resumed its Vienna-Udine runs-now in flying fortresses with machine guns ready for action...
...nine, he was apprenticed to a British militia band in Guiana, hardly saw his parents again until he left the country in his early teens to study at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Then he went abroad, studied under Felix Weingartner in Vienna, nearly starved for five years until he got a job in England as a music critic...
...laxness of our State Department and its individually indolent members has led to one Russian fait accompli after another from Berlin and Vienna to Seoul and Peiping, and the jelly-spined attitude of America's "diplomats" (sic) allows Russia to dare to plot still other grabs and double-faced deals. . . . Now, in 1946, is the time to give Stalin, Molotov & Co. to understand that this nation will tolerate no ambitions of world conquest...
...Russians have dispatched, by rail, such heavy shipments of Jews from Poland to Vienna that the monthly influx has risen from 2,200 in May to 14,500 for July; a rate of 40,000 is indicated for August. The Russians have facilitated the passage of Jews from the Russian to the U.S. zone in Germany and thence to the underground. Thousands of Palestine-bound Jews have started their water jump from the Black Sea ports of Russian-controlled Rumania...