SOVIET DEMAND ON AUSTRIA
BRITISH ATTITUDE STATED (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON,’October 27. A British Foreign Office spokesman to-day said that Britain would consider it fantastic that any claim for war booty should be made more than three years after the end of the war. He was commenting on the report that the Soviet Government had claimed a considerable amount of Austrian rolling stock as war booty. He added that in the British view rolling stock would not fall within the recognised definition of war booty. Reuter’s Vienna correspondent quotes an authoritative source as saying that the Austrian Government would appeal urgently to the Western allies for railway trucks and locomotives to prevent a breakdown of railway traffic and economic chaos as a result of the Russian demand for rolling stock and locomotives as war booty. Austria would protest, to the Allied Central Council against the Russian step.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25638, 29 October 1948, Page 7
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