Word: vienna
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While the Western Allies were belatedly liquidating their Flensburg fiasco, the Russians last week established a Berlin municipal council of German non-Communists and a few Communists (see below). In Vienna, the Russians had long since installed a national government headed by non-Communist Dr. Karl Rentier-and so far had ignored U.S. and British disapproval of this government...
Ever since his graduation from Vienna, in 1908, von Mises has taught in various European universities. After serving at Strasbourg and Dresden, he joined the faculty of the University of Berlin in 1920, and while there founded and became director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics. Leaving Germany upon the arrival of Hitler in 1933, von Mises went to the University of Istanbul, where he taught for six years before coming to Harvard...
Sepp Dietrich, who once commanded Hitler's personal bodyguard and graduated to command of the Sixth Panzer Army, was first reported killed in Vienna. later captured very much alive...
Other discoveries of the week: ¶ A whopping collection of uncatalogued art objects-in a sealed mine near Alt-Aussee, high in the Austrian Alps. This "lode" is reported to include works from Monte Cassino, Rothschild collections from Paris and Vienna, the famed Ghent altarpiece by the Brothers Van Eyck, and a part of Goring's treasures. (Deep in the mine are Hitler's own library and personal correspondence...
...that the international port should be under Yugoslav sovereignty. Liberal Count Carlo Sforza proposed that it should be under Italian sovereignty. Britain, with its New Zealanders quietly occupying Trieste harbor, said nothing. But London could scarcely fail to be aware that with a pro-Russian government newly established in Vienna (TIME, May 7) and a pro-Russian government in Belgrade, Trieste under Yugoslav sovereignty would be equivalent to a Russian port on the Adriatic...