The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 23, 1947, Page 6

(Copyright 1947, Mason Rossiter Smith) Vienna, Sept. 25. One of the greatest difficulties in European travel today— especially in the occupied areas and inside the “iron curtain” —is that the traveller is required to spend a great deal of time simply in making arrangements to travel. Plane reservations, visas and military permits invo:ve almost endless delays, not only because the European takes his time, but also because confusion exists as to what the regulations are, Furthermore, : the operation of changing American dollars,. travellers: checques, or any European currency to buy a plane ticket in | an girlines terminal is about as simple as trying to get in to see an old friend who has been sentenced to solitary confinement | in Alcatraz. | As you study the map of Europe—particularly ‘one of the colorful international airlines advertising charts—it looks easy. | If, fot example, after Stockholm you wanted to visit Helsinki, Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Athens and Istan- | bul, acGording to the airlines advertising maps, you would make the trip in qbout that order. But on arrival in Helsinki, ad- vance information being impossible, you find that to reach Warsaw you must fly back to Stockholm and thence to War- On arrival in Warsaw, you discover that the only way you can get to Berlin is via Prague and Frankfurt. At’ Prague, one of the greatest air terminals in all of Eu- rape, you finally find the information required. In short, you can go almost anywhere in the world from Prague—in fact, dfter leaving there for, say, Frankfurt and Berlin, you have to réturh’Once to get to Vienna and again tg get to Athens and Is- ul; In my case, to reach Vienna from Berlin, I flew to rankfurt, stayed overnight and fle won to Vienna via Prague following afternoon. I had planned to fly from Vienna to judapest on September 25th, but immediately ran into diffi- culties which required a whole*: Ps br bres day Hungary! should give him a_ couple os fram the Allied Control Commsi-| bombs, or have your warships sion via qur state departmgnt,!lie off the seacoast and send in and had been advised to pick up; a few shells. You'd then find the neeessary credentials at our Mr. Tito VERY apologetic and legation in Vienna before de-) very: anxious ‘to make amends. parture for Budapest. The Jega-' But now, Mr. Tito is quite sure tion had my file all ready for he's bigger than you are. And me, ‘and on advice from the! here in Austria’ we wonder, American legation at Budapest’ ‘What is the United States?” directed me to call at the Hun-, This sentiment is increased by garian legation in Vienna to ob-; a growing fear of Russians,. who tain @ visa. This is necessary the Austrians feel are encroach- because, since the peace has been ing inch by inch. signed. with Hungary, the Allied’ “They have no culture, these Control. Commission is no longer’ Russians. Many of them who operative. This new arrangement, have come here have never seen ha@ Zane into effect September a bathtub, a modern apartment. 15th. ‘ | Many, indeed, have never seen It all seemed a little too easy, a necktie, much less-an oil paint- but I rode hopefully off to the ing. They are rough and they Hungarian legation in an army are crude.” The Austrian says it jeep “eased to correspondents by, bitterly. the army at $1.25 per hour or’ At lunch one day in an Aus- fraction thereof). After waiting: wian home, the mother of the in long queue for about 80/ family apologized for the china, minutes, I was admitted in my no two pieces of which matched. tupn} to confer with a tall, blonde,, You see,” she said, “during the pleasent Hungarian, with the war we packed all our good china title Doktor. He explained | carefully in large wooden cases very‘eordially that he would be! and stored it in the basement. delighted to give me a visa “iN Then the Russians came. The not ‘Wore than two minute: it men who visited our house open- requises only a rubber stamp,”) ed the cases, hoping to find wine but first I must have a “Russian ¢hampagne or whiskey. When Paper.” . This document ne-) they saw the cases contained only cessary, he said, becau hile| dishes, they smashed everything the ‘Americans and British have! —and some of this china and gone, well, the Russians, you see,| glassware was over 150 years havé not.”. The paper could be| old.” abtained, he went on, simply; A businessman, the descendant through a letter from the Ameri-| of an old family who have oper- can ‘legation requesting it from) ated the same concern for gener- the ‘Russian authorities. : ations, described his experiences ‘1 went back to the legation,| with the Ryssians when they andthe American official check-} came at the close of the war to ed his files. The latest informa-! seize all available machinery. tion, not over 24 hours old, from | (This also serves to illustrate how the American legation at Buda-| much love the Austrians bear the | pestava sthat no “Russian paper”| Germans, who treated them as was*required, if I traveled by] slaves, an “inferior race”.) air.” So he telephoned Herr Dok-]| “I slept here in the building tor, at the Hungarian legation, to] every night,” he explained, “to double check, and got the same] protect my plant. Every night answer as I. We discussed the|they would come, hammer on practicability of — telephoning] the doors with their revolver Budapest, to make the necessary] butts to get me up. I was all arrahgements but finally gave] alone, and I appeared always at| tests, I do not think you have uj, a8 completion of the papers! the door as an ordinary work-|enough dollars, rich us you might require from two days to} man. are.” : : tWo, Weeks. Inasmuch as I had} “‘Show us your machines,’] There is real fear in Vienna four days in Vienna, I was} they would shout ,and I would i§ed tg try for the visa in|simply shake my head: ‘Here i e jater in ‘the week, if 1] we haye.no. machines. We are ist vated to go to Budapest.) simply the representatives of a At this ‘point that possibility has) bigger firm in Berlin. The ma- still, to materialize, but having] chines you want are all in Ber- niet Jack Guinn of A.P. and Jo-| lin.” Then they weuld go away sépht Kingsburysmith of I.N;S.| “This went on for some time atthe Press camp here in Vien-) until the Americans came, and na, the former just in from Buda-| Vienna was divided into four oc- pest,"the latter on his way there,| cupati sectors, one for the Hungary should be included in ns, one for the British, this itinerary if at all possible. | one for the French and one for r Riser & the Russians. My plant was in This beautiful Old World city,} the American sector, and J didn’t whith in spite of the war (it suf-| lose a single machine.” fered’ comparatively little dam-| Russian soldiers now, accord- age) is the first I haye visited] ing to the Viennese, are getting where American prestige is at} out of hand. In many cases there low ebb. The “reservoir of good) have been outright refusals to will” is running over the brim in] obey orders, and there have this,eapitel, for there is genuine] been suicides among the officers aff nm for Americans — in| when ‘orders were reecived to view of our treatment of Austria] return to Russia. There have during the occupation, and in/also been many desertions, the| J appreciation of the thouasnds of] soldiers changing into civilian food and clothing packages|clothes to escape capture and Americans have shipped into the| then ranging the streets at night equntry. (CARE delivers about] to rob and steal. 1,500 parcels a day, according to} “After they’ve been here Major Patrick Murray, charge] awhile,” one Viennese told me, d'affaires at the Vienna agency| “they don’t want to go home, for in the absence of Col. John Hynes, | Russia is not at all like this. And _ chief of the mi mn, temporarily] we hear the rumor that returning in “New York.) But American} Russian troops are not sent home, polifical prestige has fallen to anj but rather to some remote dis- extremely low point, because the] trict beyond the Urals, where Austrians cannot fathom our far- pee cannot tell people what they) ign policy. have seen. | ovthey eannat understand, for} “As a matter of fact, some of | exdmple, why—when some of} our soldiers who have been re- Marshal Tito’s people shoot down) ——————- ——______ | Anperican planes which have lost . THE NEW reer thejr course and flown over i Yugeglavia—our state depart- Sarnsworth | ment merely “protests.” “Who is Tito, compared to the HAS QUALITY! United States of America and} Qyersea: . ° he is"he to shoot down your’ 4), s Radio & Appliance Co. planes? Protests bah! = You Duval Street Phone 79 | i was over there—and they looked like it. Recently, however, the Russians have been feeding up our, repatriates for a month be- fore they return, so. the look well fed. But nobody is fooled.” Slav,” another chap remarked. “Here in Vienna, we think we do. because under the old pre-World War 1 Austria-Hungarian Em- pire, our country included many Balkan peoples, Czechs, Sloyaks, Slovenes, as well as Germanic der that empire—and ever since that day, our peoples have’ in- termarried, we still speak each other’s languages and Vienna to- day is still the cultural, amuse ment and business capitol of the Balkans as it was in Franz Josef’s you, a great count zn only ar only do this,” he urged, “you a war, Show some real signs of strength and force, and they SORRY" Miatesman win cap HOUSEBOY Preston Augustus Douglass proudly shows the plum pudding baked by his em- ployer, Mrs. Gaetano De Luca of Nashville, Tenn., for Presi- dent Truman. It was sent to the White House in Washing- ton for Christmas. Three presidents and other famous people have been preesnted with Mrs. Luca’s famous deli- cacy. Newsphoto) patriated from Russian _ prison camps tell us that there are signs in the Ri an railroad - tions reading: ‘Don't _ believe what the returning soldier te you! Austria is NOT a paradise! \“Incidentally,” he went on, “not so long ago when our men came back from Russia they were thin, underfed and obvious- ly overworked. That wasn’t good s for the Russians, because iuted soldiers were the possible anti-Rusian prop- They knew how it will “You have to understand the Rumanians, Serbs, Croats and peoples. As a matter of fact, un- time. : “Knowing the Slav so well, it is hard for us to understand how protest.” He grasped an imagin- club in his hand, and started to swing it ,hard. “If you would would stop them. They do not want a war. They cannot afford will back down. 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