Severe blow for Waldheim
NZPA-Reuter Vienna
The Austrian President, Kurt Waldheim, received an unprecedented political blow when the powerful Vienna section of the dominant Socialist Party called for his resignation on Saturday. Dr Waldheim, aged 68, has been accused by critics of covering up his role with the German Army in World War II and the Vienna regional congress of the party voted to demand that he give up the office to which he was elected a year ago.
Delegates approved the resolution over objections from the leadership of the party, which rules in coalition with the conservative People’s Party. A day earlier Dr Waldheim returned from an audience with, the Pope in the Vatican, which his supporters hoped would end his
international isolation since he became head of State.
Josef Hindels, President of the Federation of Socialist Freedom Fighters, proposed the motion, which said: “A president who. camouflaged his biography and who speaks of having done his duty in the Hitler war is unacceptable.” Dr Waldheim, the former United Nations Secretary-General, has been under fire from the United States and other Western countries and Jewish organisations over allegations, which he denies, that he concealed his role with the German Army during its Balkans campaign in World War 11.
According to his official post-war biographies Dr Waldheim appeared to have been in Vienna studying law during his period of service in the Balkans.
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