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THE FRAU CHANCELLOR
London.
RAU HILDE FIGL, 45 years
Fold, is not the sort of woman
you would turn to look at in the streets of London or even of Vienna. She is plumpish; pleasant- faced, placid. She wears a not-too- strictly tailored suit and a perky little straw suitor hat tipped to the back of her short auburn hair.
But she is the wife of the Austrian Chancellor, De Leopold Figl, visiting London with him. She is the first wife of a foreign Head of State to be received by the Queen in Buckingham Palace since King George VI's funeral.
"So pretty, and sa young to be the monarch of a great country." was her comment afterwards on the Queen
The Queen lied to her in French. Although Frau Figl understands a litte English she does not speak it.
Her French, however, is fluent, and
It was in French that she conversed with me In the white-walled double drawing- rocm at the newly-redecorated Austrian Embassy in Belgrave Square where two crystal chandeliers hang from the ceilings and where the fine old furniture and pictures are set off by hangings of paleat green, yellow and white silk.
Inko
Politics? No -
At home she has the reputa, tion of being self-effacing, "I no part in politics” the said. "I think my job' is to make a good home for my. husband."
by EVELYN IRONS
March 13, 1038, a dato due will always remember. Twenty- four hours after Hitler's Nazis marched into Vienna, two Gere
man police hammered on the door of the Figl fat near the centre of the city.
Thon a postcard
Race For Hydrogen Bomb
Washington,
MERICA'S top seient-
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are
From R. M. MCOLL
is more power
Is theoretically a thousand ped up even further, to try, to mes more powerful than the bring about a victorious burst ,which will produce the bomb The work is being rushed to by the autumn," racing against the the limit now because of the clock, to try to ensure that psychological factors involved.
directors the the world's first hydrogen If, as
political-blitary bomb will be exploded next belleve,
Brand crisis September, when the Unit world affairs is due to be
can
The
While this big drive is en,
oflere are powerful voices 'be.
In
of or
hind the scenes taking up the
question Angrily 'debated whethor America should should not continue to with- hold from Britain, and Canada ber atomic Information and re search discoveries.
of enfores the
ed States undertakes the reached some time with the next great 'hush-hush ex- next 12 months, demonstrable possession-by-the-West of an periments on the Pacific H-Bomb might be the rce card atoll of Eniwetok.
welch could Thousands of millions of pouce. dollars have been poured out. on this project, ever, since President Truman gave the 'green light over a year ago.
have been co up, guarded by thousands of #ecurity
of America's best scientifle brains have been at work, seeking to perfect the new bomb, which
Huge plants'
mon.
Some
America is convinced that the decisive factor in the world struggle depends on the start which the West obtains in stomie weapons. So new orders have gone out that the already strenuous work on the Hydrogen Bomb shall be step
There is a school thought In the State Department for example, which is engaged in a battle royal with powerful figures at the Pentagon. The State Department, men are completely opposed to the law which says that America must not tell Britain or anyone elsa anything at all in the, atomic field, and they are working away diligently to get a change.
THE FIGL FAMILY of boner Everywhere Roman Catholics are in posts of Influence.
Leopold Figl with his wife, daughter Annaliese, 16, and wa Hoss, 22.
And now? Frau Figl, could, if she wished, live in a grand official residence in Vienna, She and her husband chose instead to have their six-roomed flat on the cutskirts, (where tourists go to drink Grinzing new-vintage wine in the hillside
cafes),
ngar
To antagonise them was Stalin's greatest blunder
KREMLIN VATICAN
VERSUS
the
in positions of influence, And in Europe they dominate politient scena,
and
Catholle, "the Prem
mini-
THE Russian film indus willingness to live peace. been visiting Britain. He is the try have just given the ably within the Com head of the Catholic People's She enjoys cooking British public a fascinating munist States to the full Party, which exercises the pre- dominant Influenco. in Austrian Dr Figl, parliamentary deputy,
Stalin The Figs have only one maid. picture of
seen and determined exercise of affaire. leader of the Peasant Party, a
This does not complete the re- Catholic, a bitter opponent of Frau Figl does the cooking. "I through Soviet eyes. In its political influence against But thero in a strange back the unlon with Germany, was enjoy it she says. Daughter The Fall of Berlin" the the interests of Soviet Com cord of Roman Catholle poli- ground of violence to the life there with his wife and their Anneliese, now 10, goes to high
iiclans in Europa Franco of this smiling little haustrau son Hand, who was then six school in Vicuna as her mother Soviet dictator appears as munism.
Strategically, the Roman
of Spain General from Vienna. Politics have years old, and daughter Anne-
did before her, and son Hans, the kindly father of his
is De Salazar Catholic Church is well place taken u sinister part in her life. İlese, aged two,
20, studies electrical at' technical collore.
engineering peoples, a man of infinite to engage in a struggle of this mier of Fortugal. Their
roof the Bame" Talth Frau Figl like nearly every goodness and almost divine kind. Everywhere in the world sters are
Roman Catholics may be found countries the Catholle have,
In predominantly Anglo- Saxon one else in Vienna, likes the wisdom,
less The Nazis book Leopold F opera: looks forward to the Most Communists cer
influence. Only one of the Em- away. Later a telephone message time (two or three years from tainly belleve that Stalin
pire Fremiers is a Catholic." He sold that he would remain under now) when the full glory of
fa Mr Louis St Laurent rot arrest "for a few days." the bombed State Opera House never made
Canada. In Britain only 23, "After two weeks," Frau Figl will be restored. Lighter theatri-take in his life. The myth Lod at France. Twelve of the members of Parliament, are told me, "I had a postcard from cal productions interest ber, too of infallibility is so much 17 members the French Catholles, of whom 15 are So- Dachau in Germany, I knew (she chose to only too well what that meant. Madam' in London and liked admission of error is ever pinay, the Foreign Minister. M. former Lord Privy Seat. There
see "Call me easier to maintain when no Cabinet are Catholics. They in- cialists. Perhaps the most pro
clude the Prime Minister, M. minent le Mr Richard Stokes, the Schuman, the Defence Minister, are u Catholics holding office in
the presont administration. The United States has
been called
Roman Catholic country, be strong, is the in fluence of the Catholle vote in certain key areas. The Triah and Italian Immigrants
who
settled
have a way with them
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prisoners to leave Austria for the concentration camp,"
Frau Figi was left without in other duties now there is no history of the
all the entertaining and
she says.
to
be
written it will
Associated
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in the big cities were all Catho-
e
lies, and the Catholics are now
terference in the flat with her time," says the. But the all postwar years by CHARLES WINTOUR children. She had no money, takes an annual holiday in the comes Fortunately her father, a former Tyrol and spends it mountain- member of the Bundesrat (the climbing. My favourite
sport," Lower House of the Austin
be found that Stalin made M. Ploven, and M. Le Tourneo, Parliament), was able to help
for her.
At home sho does her own many mistakes, and the the Minister
Staics In her desperation, she family marketing: likes to talk biggest was his attack on
by far the largest single reli Then there is M. Bidault, the travelled to Berlin and went to to other housewives about their the position of the Roman leader of the Mouvement He- you in the country with Gerlapo headquarters to plead problems: Interests herself in Catholic Church in the publicain Forxulaire, one of the yeas, an increase of more than nearly 28,000,000 · members" last for her husband, "But it was, social welfare work. Her latest Soviet orbit of influence. partios assential to the Govern 850,000 members over the pre-
activity It was not until 1943 that Frau formed to teach móthers in There are nearly 50 men's majority. He is vious year. on the telephone. He had been method of pained at living in countries under wing plader of the right-
Gestapo again
An
а
new organisation
Likes gardens
Catholic.
And so is General de
French foreign office. 1 very Catholic,
at the Qual d'Orsay, the
same
all in vatn," she said. Figl-heard her husand's voicu zemato country dietrists modern million Roman Catholics-Gaulle, the
released through the help of a Frau Figi was
«} Soviet rule. The persecution But Catholio, influence, extends Catholics are prominent, on" sympathiser within the Gestapo school of domestic science.
this. It is Capitol Hill. One of the Can- organisation. He was coming never almed to have a career" of their Church and its much farther
that pro- dedential
for the Democratic home.
she said. She married at 24. leaders aroused the whole norally understood Sho met her husband first whan Catholic world and led in
nomination a Senator Brien Me he was still a schoolbay and 1949 to Papal excommunica. dificult for non-Catholics. she was 14. They met again hy
The
Mahon, chairman of the Con- chance three years later and tlon of the Communists,
thing applies to non-gressional atomloanergy-com- Catholio officers in the
mitice. Robert Wagner, the soon became engaged.
Army France's northern neighbour, pioneer of United States labour Belgium,
A and social security legislation, in la governed by The trial of Cardinal Cabinet which is entirely Calho also a Catholic. Mindszenty in Hungary, the s, for the Social Christian
By striking at the Roman banishment of Archbishop Party forming the Government Catholics within the satellità
is a a Roman Beran of Prague, the arrest
Catholic partygi
countries Stalin incurred the. of the Rumanian prelates, Cathalle country, led by a Row Church in the
Of course, Italy, is a Roman enmity of the most univerzal the attacks on the Church man Catholle Prime Minister, consolidating his power for
world. Instead of
[In Poland-all these in- Signor de Gusperi." But it
of Com
the strength of the Roman Chancellor, is a Roman Catholic. build itself up into the biggest cidents helped to build up be surprising for people to hear, munist Influence no cau
ho caused the that Herr Adenauer, the German. Boman Catholic Church to Catholic Church and to
And so is De, Fiz), the Austrian bastion; against Soviet Commu- change its attitude, from a Chancellor, who has just niam in the world today.
Mauthausen.
But it was not for long. enginees by profession, Figl got B job in a firm building roads, In October 1944, after a your With his wife and family, the Gestapo came to the flat agai
What has taken her eye here? This time he was sent to the The gardens. There is a little notorious Austrian concentration one near the Round Tower at
Windsor Castle which I thought Belors the spring of 1915, would ham anyone into a port when Mauthausen was liberated, it was so lovely." She has only there were even harder times a geeker handkerchie
garden" for Frau Figi in Vienna.
at Her dat was in one of the worst-bombed districts, For the Viennese Frau Figl-che never One English characteristic of last six months of the war there, takes that lush Vince
no electricity or gas, or with a dollop of thick cream an wator.
top. Her drink is.tea.
Was
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