AUSTRIANS REDUCED TO A STARVATION DIET
Received Monday, 10.40 p.m. NEW Y-ORK, May 26. The Austrians have been xeduced to a starvation diet as the result of the Russian seizure °of their farm products, livestock and other xesources in violation of Soviet pledges, accoxding to General Mark Clark, forrner commander of the Ameriican Occupation Forees in Austria, in a broadcast. ' 'My protest to the Russian com- ^ mander on this and other seizures ■was answered with the xeply: ■'It is in accdrdance with the Potsdam Agreement,' I say definitely it is not in accordance with our agreement at Potsdam." , General Glark said since the first Austrian election the Russians -had ' been giving extra food and higher wages to Austrians Who would join the Communist Party.' He added that to be "firjn and definite" with the Russians Sid not increase the chances of war, but -on the vj>ontrary would reduce them.
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 May 1947, Page 5
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