AUSTRIAN PRESIDENT
DR. RENNER ELECTED
SOUTH TYROL DEMANDED
(10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 20. Dr. Karl Renner, Prime Minister in the Austrian Provisional Government. Was unanimously elected president of the republic at a joint session of both Houses of Parliament, states the Vienna radio. The proceedings were broadcast over the Austrian radio—an event without precedent in Parliamentary history in central Europe. The names of the deputies being called to cast their vote at the ballot box could be heard for half an hour.
Amid applauce, Dr. Renner called for the immediate return of South Tyrol to Austria. Dr. Renner thanked the Allies, particularly' the Red Army, for liberating Austria, but denounced the demarcation lines beween .the Allied occupation zones.
“We shall be free only when we are master in our own house,” he said.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21902, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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