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Xohe8e Sept.52. — page four = made by the Americans since 1945. It was em error becuuse lr. . Donneily's veto was & complete reversal of the hitherto so por. pular American stand, that being in Austria ageinst their will, they would not interfere in Mistrien affairs In fact, the Ameri-~ cans offered the Russisns the best possible propagenda arcumentS, which they now use to great eveile This interference with Aus-_ 4vien affairs, Gone in the most brutal and undenocratic manner, has ereuted much bitterness mong everybody against. the Anericans. Tt hag hurt the Western cause very badly. The suspieion has been expressed, that this was done on purpose, since it is weii knom that the American civilien administration in Austria is harbou= | ; ring a lot of extremist 1eft wingers nostly of Europeen encestry, who fundamentally do not like America ut alle These men had wide | infiuenceswith Mre Donnelly end are obviously responsible for § this major blundere : k. While this is going on, the Soviet interventions in their Zoue continue, Thus the Soviets have taken up agein the practice of 1949, to take away Auetrien locomotives end tc send them to Russia. The Soviets pretend that every oconotive which was in the Soviet Zone at the tH iperution" is Soviet ywar-bootye If this would be carried out fully it would deprivexthe Austrian | { reitroads of 1160 locomotives, thus destroying the wosie transpor áystem of the country. The Soviet erthorities Yurthemore ure inereasingly interfering with the operations of the Austricn Police Forces using these forces for all sorts of purposes mostiy connec= ted with infoming the Soviets about enti-communist parties. This intervention, esoecially in Lower Austrian is obviously gimed at me = creating fear in the population in view of the coming electionS. In this connection it is also interesting. to note, a while Austria in general has a rising population, the total rise of the poculation comes from the Western Zone, whiie the, Soviet Zone is losing peorie constentiye Recent statistics have proven thet Vienna has lost recently 15.6 % of its phpulation, the DurgenJjánd 7.9% end Lower Austria 5. 7, This will alse force fin the — near future in chenge of the electoral law, atiributing, added seats to the Western Provinces while taking away some fxom the Baste ; Cos It is furthermore noteworthy, that the Coarmnist-doriim. ated World Federation of Trade Unions, which hitherto had its” offices in the Soviet Sector of Vienna, is now getting ready to move to Bast Berlin, No ressons are civeny but it is mom that the main esuse was the feeling that with a hostile governement and population the offices could not keep its meetings and other Conferences secret enouche : a
