The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-12-23

culties which required q whole
morning to unruvel.
= ] had clearance for Hungar,
from the Allied Control Commsi
sion via our state department
and had been advised to pick VI
the necessary credentials at Oul
legation in Vienna before de
partlire for Budapest. The .lega'
ton had my file all ready fol
me, and on advice from the
American legation at Budapest
directed me to call at the Hun
garian legation in Vienna to OBJ
tain d visa. This is necessary
because, since the peace has been
signed with Hungary, the Allied
Control. Commission is no longer
operative. This new arrangement
had gone into effect September
18TH
II all seemed little too easy,
but l rode hopefully off to the
Hungarian legation in an army
jeep 'Qeased to correspondents by
the army at $l.25 per hour Or
fraction thereof). After waiting
in q long queue for about 80
minutes, l was admitted in my
turn, to confer with tall, blonde,
pleasant Hungarian, with the
title sof Doktor. He explained
very cordially that he would be
delighted to give me a visa in
not more than two minuteS--it
requires only q rubber stamp"
but first must have Russian
PAPER" This document was ne
cessary, he said, because while
the Americans and British have
gone, gweli, the Russians, you see,
have not. The paper could be
obtained, he went on, simply
through a letter from the Ameri-
can &legation requesting it from
the Russian authorities.
Il went back to the legation,
and the American official check
ed his files. The latest informa-
tion, not over "a hours old, from
the American legation at Buda-
pest5wa sthat no Russian paper"
was required, if travelled by
air. So he telephoned Herr Dok-
tor, at the Hungarian legation, to
double check, and got the same
answer as l. We discussed the
practicability of telephoning
Budapest to make the necessary
Arrangements but finally gave
UP, as completion of the papers
might require from two days to
two weeks. Inasmuch as had
oplysfour days in Vienna, was
/ aayised TO try for the visa in
Prague later in the week, if
still twanted to go TO Budapest
At this point that possibility has
still. TO materialize, but having
met Jack Quinn of A.P. and Jo-
seph' Kingsburysmith of ms
at,the Press camp here in Wen
ma, the former just in from Buda-
pest, the latter On his way there
Hungary should be included in
this itinerary if at all possible.
49, y,
This beautiful Old World city
which in spite of the war Git suf-
fered' comparatively little dam
age) Is the first Il have visited
where American prestige is al
low ebb. The reservoir of gooC
will" is running over the brim ir
this capitol, for there is genuine
affection for Americans - il
view of our treatment of Austris
during the occupation, and il
appreciation of the Thousands o
food and clothing packages
Americans have shipped into tn,
country. CARE delivers abou
1900 parcels day, according t.
Major Patrick Murray, charg,
d'affaires at the Vienna agenc!
i'm the absence of Col. John Hynes
chief of the mission, temperate,
in Anew York; But American
political prestige has fallen to al
extremely low point, because tn
Austrians cannot fathom our for
eign policy.
They cannot understand, 70
example, why-When some o
Marshal Tito's people shoot dow
American planes which have los
their course and flown owe
Yugaslavia-our state depart
ment merely protests"
WHO is Tito, compared to tn
United States of America am
who is he to shoot down you
planes? Protests bah! Yo'