PRESIDENT OF AUSTRIA
DR RENNER ELECTED LONDON, Dec. 20. Dr. Karl Renner. Prime Minister in the Austrian Provincial Government, was unanimously elected President of the Republic at. a joint session of both Houses of Parliament, stated 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 votes at the ballot box could be heard for half an hour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26033, 22 December 1945, Page 8
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