Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviets and their creed of Communism. But I do demand that a magazine of TIME'S pretensions and professed journalistic ideals face up to the unparalleled political situation that exists today: in 28 years Soviet socialism, the prelude to Communism, has unfurled its flag from Vladivostok to Berlin, Vienna, Belgrade and Bucharest. France and Italy are going Communist, in spite of the feverish behind-the-scenes efforts of British and Americans to prevent this "catastrophe." Most of Europe is going the same way. In China millions have embraced this creed. In fact, the Communists have organized groups in every...
...Outside Munich's Gothic Rathaus, now the seat of the U.S. Military Government, I talked with a short, stocky corporal who told with relish how he had just returned from forbidden Vienna, where he had served with a liaison mission. That mission, he said, was carried out successfully in an atmosphere of trust and good will. And incidentally, he added that the Viennese seemed surprised but happy under Russian occupation, which so far has netted them a larger food ration than Austrians get in the American zone, and also a government chosen from their own people...
...cannot be proud of the contrast between the U.S. and Russian occupied zones of Austria. After three weeks of occupation, the Americans have not yet set up a government or indicated to the Austrians what we plan for them. Whatever one may think of the Vienna government or of the Russians' unilateral action, the fact remains that the Russians have moved with dispatch and are displaying their wares to the Austrians. So far our shopwindow has been filled chiefly with confusion...
...bridge over the muddy Salzach River, where it twists through troubled Salzburg, a U.S. Army sign says: "Free Swing Concert Tonight in the Mozart Theater." In Salzburg it is swing, in Vienna it is a tune somewhat more familiar to European ears. But unless the orchestras get together, the Austrians are more likely to listen to a new variation of that old Horst Wessel Lied, sung by men who are now fugitives in the mountains...
Married. Peter Lorre, 41, Hungarian-born cinemactor specializing in whimsically fiendish roles (M; Hotel Berlin); and Kaaren Verne, 27, Vienna-born cinemactress (The Seventh Cross, Kings Row): both for the second time; directly after her uncontested divorce from British Band leader Arthur Young; in Las Vegas...