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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 14, 1950
Occupied Austria Seeks Independence, Tourists
Editor's Note: Leoipod Haindl, exchange student from Austria, is a part-time instructor in German. He holds a degree from Vienna. This is the fourth article of articles submitted to the magazine.
Austria, with a population of about 7 million, is only a little bit larger than the state of Maine. But she has always played a very important part in all Central European problems by virtue of her geographic position.
And she still is considered of great importance. Otherwise she would have been given back her freedom, because—and that's the tragedy of our small country-Austria still is occupied.
To understand Austria's position, one must go back to Hitler's aggression in 1938. At that time a desperate appeal from the Austrian government for support from her neighbors fell on deaf ears.
The Nazi occupation brought a period of political, cultural and economic bondage. After the beginning of the war, hundreds of thousands of Austrians were pressed into the German armed forces. Of these, about 350,000 men were killed and 170,000 disabled.
Hopes rose in the Austrians in November 1943, when the U.S. Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and later, France, signed the Moscow Declaration. This document proclaimed the re-establishment of a free and independent Austria as one of the major Allied war aims.
When the Allied forces marched into Austria in May 1945, hopes rose even higher. But today—eight years after occupation—Austria is still occupied.
To be sure, Austria has her own government—but with specific reservations to the entire country. Foreign armies still occupy Austria, and it must pay the occupation costs.
Since 1946, the Allied powers have been conducting negotiations with the aim of reaching an Austrian State treaty, which would mean the departure of the foreign troops. Although one meeting has been followed by another, these negotiations have led to no conclusive results.
It is needless to point out to whom we owe our occupation. The constant refusal of Soviet representatives to settle the relatively unimportant problem of Austria's post-war debts to the Soviet Union by way of bi-lateral negotiations with Vienna has been—and still is—only a pretext of the Russians to keep their troops in Austria, and thereby, in Central Europe.
However, Austria's situation is entirely different from that of Germany. There is no Iron Curtain between the Russian zone and the other Allied zones. Everybody, Austrians or not, can travel throughout the whole country without running into trouble.
Vienna, in contrast to Berlin, is a city in which the Russians and three Western Allied nations live together in good fellowship. No American vacationer in Europe should miss seeing Austria and the cordial meeting of East and West illustrated there.
—Leopold Haindl
UDK to Poll Politicos
Starting tomorrow, the Daily Kansas will devote a portion of its editorial page as a campus politics proving ground.
Leading off with a pair of statements from the two candidates for the All Student Council presidency, the Daily Kansan will publish articles written by members of the two
political parties, FACTS and Pachacamac, up to the issue preceding the campus general elections, Wednesday. April 22.
The articles will describe the sentiments of each party on such issues as housing, student labor and wages, and the functions and purposes of the political parties.
POGO
In case ex-vacationing students are wondering, the weather here was lousy too. One day, Wednesday, was reasonable. Otherwise it was cold, cloudy, damp, and conducive only to study. The faculty had a songfest. Featured number: "Wish You Were Here."
Vacation Weather Lousy' Here Too
Happened to ask our barber if spring would ever come. "Spring," he said. "We don't have spring in Kansas. We just turn off the furnace and turn on the fans."
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Construction work seemed to move right along. One wag claimed it was because workmen didn't have to stop and look over every coed that walked by.
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by Dick Bibler
The library was open every day. First time in ages the working personnel outnumbered the customers.
Business was so slow at the library the clerks answered the telephone on the first ring.
Monday was readjustment day. The hospital reported no cases of homesickness. Probably because a lot of students were still home.
Little Man on Campus
The Korean scene is not the only world location lacking in ammunition. Republicans haven't had much success firing the Democrats either.
Only 44 studying days until examinations.
"We're scoutin' for th' wrestling team and th' coach here is quite taken with yr style—Interested?"
Don't Fail to Miss Him -
Dizzy Dean Lingo Livens Sportscasting
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For millions of persons, life be came livable again yesterday with the opening of baseball season.
This distortion of English plus his deep love and thorough knowledge of baseball, his unorthodox vocal delivery, and his free and easy manner have gained him fanatic followers. Even those who previously had no inking what a strike was liked his style well enough to let him "learn them" the game.
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From now until October, radios and television sets are valuable, and the hibernation of that baseball hero—the play by play announcer—is ended.
Among such heroes is the popular Dizzy Dean. Diz, now 42, is beginning his 13th year of announcing. He still is the same humorous creature of the '30s. Except for some added weight and graying hair, he looks the same as when he was "fogging them in there." And he still has the same refreshing knack of misusing the English language.
Without even suspecting it, Diz laid the foundation for his announcing career while at the pinnacle of his pitching success. It began in 1355, the year after "me and Paul" pitched the St. Louis Cardinals to the world championship.
The young man was the Falstaff president's son. When his father called a meeting of the company's board in 1941 to discuss hiring
The 24-year-old Dizzy was attending a barbecue given by the president of the Falstaff Brewing company. While there, he met an infantile paralysis victim and learned that the young man worked in spite of it. The two became close friends.
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someone to broadcast the Brown's games, the son suggested Dizzy. Thus began Jerome Herman Dean's broadcasting career.
The thing that made him great almost cost him his job prior to his award winning year.
the schoolkids ate up the Dean lingo much to the frustration of the St. Louis school marms. Ballplayers, they informed their teachers, "thrown and slud"; they wouldn't be found dead "throwing and sliding."
The teachers' attitude toward Dizzy was singular—that man has got to go. They claimed it was useless to teach the children English when they were beginning to talk the way Dizzy did. The matter went all the way to the mayor's office.
But Dizzy intervened. He told them: "All I kin say is that I believe in education. I wisht that I hadda been able to get an education. But my mother died when I was three years old, an' I hadda go chop and pick cotton to make enough money
fer black-eyed peas and sowbelly. I hadda work to make enough to eat on. I really wished I could got an education, I would gone to school if I had been able."
Diz didn't know it at the time, but he had just pitched a victory against great opposition. The letters of apology from teachers poured in. It was agreed "that the teachers would learn them kids English and Diz would learn 'em baseball."
This is the same guy you can hear every day for the next six months telling you: "Musial stands confidentially at the plate" or "Rezooter slud into thud"; or "the runners are returning to their respectable bases" "or don't fail to miss tomorrow's game." Or don't be surprised to hear him singing "The Wabash Camon Ball" for which he receives numerous requests.
Yesterday opened the baseball season. So don't fail to miss this wonderful opportunity to let a really great announcer learn you about this here game of baseball.
-Bob Nold
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