Word: volkspartei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Austria's Dr. Karl Renner, the veteran Social Democrat whom Russia had placed in power, last week resigned as Chancellor. The Volkspartei, victorious at the elections (TIME, Dec. 3) was busy organizing a new multi-party Cabinet. The incoming Chancellor, slender, pleasant, subtle, 43, was a man few Austrians knew much about until the Allied victory in Europe. His name: Leopold Figl...
...concentration camps, first Dachau, then Flossenburg. After six years the Nazis slipped up, set him free. Promptly Figl set to work as an organizer in what little underground movement Austria developed. He represented the Austrian resistance in contacts with the much stronger Polish underground. After liberation he founded the Volkspartei of small agrarians, much like Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party...
Meeting in the Landtag across the street from the Chancellery, the delegates created new government posts for the conservative Volkspartei. They set up a tripartisan elections committee; parliamentary elections were set for Nov. 25. Then they asked the Allies for recognition, credits, an end to zoning...
...rally in the Konzerthaus, earnest, 75-year-old Dr. Karl Renner, provisional Chancellor, gave 10,000 Viennese some stirring news: Socialist, Communist and Volkspartei leaders had united to demand return of the South Tyrol, which Italy had taken after World War I. The Big Five Foreign Ministers had tabled the appeal at London, but at least they had not killed...
Both Socialist and Volkspartei members vigorously deny that the government was formed under pressure from either Austrian Communists or Russians. To Allied eyes the Renner Government looked like a put-up job when the first news came over the Moscow radio. Now the Austrians insist that Renner sent notification simultaneously to Britain, the U.S. and Russia, but that for some mysterious reason the messages to Washington and London never got through Russian censorship...