Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Clark came to Vienna ten months ago, from the Italian front, he found the Russians already in full and resolute control. They had got over their wild initial spell of raping and looting, and were engaged in the orderly transport to Russia of $100 million worth of factory equipment and raw materials. They had swathed Vienna in red flags (mostly Nazi flags with swastikas removed), were feeding the Viennese less than 1,000 calories a day, flooding the country with worthless occupation marks, and were rapidly gaining an iron grip on Austrian economy...
Clark picked out a large, comfortable office in Vienna's massive National Bank Building for indispensable paper work, and a large, comfortable villa on the outskirts of the U.S. zone for no less indispensable banquets; then he started to see what could be done about the Russians...
...Vienna, Clark leads a simple, hardworking life. His wife Maurine is working on an occupation diary, and preparing to organize a U.S. wives' club. His daughter Ann, 19, and his son William, 20, are both in Austria. His pet cocker spaniel Pal is now famed through his master's bitter crack: "Here are the Russians with 150,000 troops and here I am with my cocker spaniel...
Clark is an indefatigable stroller; he likes to roam about the Vienna Woods, from where he can get a look at the city as a whole-at the neat patterns of villas in the U.S. zone, at the sooty, rambling factories in the Russian zone, and at the Danube that flows, a grey, swift dividing line, between...
Littler than Least. Vienna in the late spring of 1946 was a broken city. The baroque grandeur of its stone merely served as a backdrop for uncleared rubble, and the remnants of its once-blithe spirit were merely counterpoints to present hopelessness. Within the brief flash of 30 years, Vienna had in turn been the gay and gilded center of an empire, the outsized capital of a bankrupt rump republic, a subordinate, provincial town in Nazi Germany, and the cringing wartime scene of bombings, street fighting, burning, looting...