Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vienna last week, the simple question took strange forms. The Russians promised that their exuberant flyers would stop using U.S. passenger planes for target practice; next day, they used U.S. airfield installations instead. The Red Army had seized the head offices of the Danube Shipping Co., while the U.S. still held on tightly to the company's barges in the U.S. zone. Meanwhile the Russians presented to the Austrian Government a 43 million schilling bill for "food supplied to Vienna"; most of which Austria's peasants had taken from Austria's own soil...
...officer was speeding back last week, after a brief breathing spell in Italy. General Mark Wayne Clark, commander of the U.S. occupation forces, found nothing unusual in these alarms and confusions. It was just an average week, and Clark could still claim with justice that Big Four relations in Vienna were better (or less visibly bad) than anywhere else in Europe...
...result of a preliminary investigation by the Unitarian Service Committee it has been decided not to send food to the University at Grenoble, France. Instead, the Council will concentrate for the moment on the University of Vienna, where, according to the Unitarians' report, the need for aid is most pressing...
Dismay. Months ago the Big Three agreed that the South Tyrol (with 180,000 Austrians, 130,000 Italians) should remain in Italy because Italian industry needs the Tyrol's power plants. But nobody bothered to tell the Austrian Government of the decision. Last week Vienna reached the depth of dismay and disillusionment when it learned that the Paris Conference had awarded the South Tyrol to Italy...
Franz Josef's Command. Jeritza, a Moravian, was born Mitzi Jedlicka, a name she glamorized after she became a Viennese prima donna. Emperor Franz Josef, who heard her at the Vienna Volksoper, commanded her to the Vienna Court Opera and gave her the Austrian Order of Knighthood, first class.* For ten years she was the operatic toast of Europe's gayest capital. Her tall (5 ft. 7 in.) figure was as trim as a dressmaker's model, and as muscular as a middleweight champion. For her combined vocal and physical prowess Puccini named her his "greatest Tosca...