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...victory: Vienna. There the siege which might have destroyed much of the city had been quickly turned into a Nazi rout. The street battles of seven days & nights were the last phases of a strategic victory that had been won in four weeks of battles along the roads from Budapest. In those battles the Germans had desperately spent armor and manpower. The Red Army had chopped apart eleven armored divisions...
Died. Justinian Cardinal Seredi, 60, Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary, Archbishop of Esztergom, who was carried off as a hostage by the Nazis just before the Soviet armies took Budapest; of a heart attack ("where and under what conditions ... it is not yet precisely known," said a Vatican German-language broadcast). As early as 1934 he said, "It is not possible for a Catholic priest to approve Nazi principles, and I decidedly prohibit . . . even a benevolent attitude of any of my priests toward...
Last week came old Vienna's turn on the Nazi torture rack. The Germans had willed that the city of 2,000,000 Austrians should die as Budapest had died - slowly, to gain a little more time for Naziism. But this week it seemed that the Red Army would foil that murder by swift conquest. Vienna might escape death, though it would be gravely wounded...
...Sides. But the Germans had not yet solved the Red Army's technique of taking bastioned cities by complex, encircling attacks. As they had at Budapest, the two big armies of Marshals Fedor I. Tolbukhin and Rodion Y. Malinovsky struck swiftly at the sides. Cossack horsemen slashed into the eastern approaches after crossing the Morava River. From a flotilla of small boats on the Danube, Red raiders leapfrogged ashore at night to attack from the rear. Infantrymen infiltrated the green Vienna Woods to the west, slammed over the main roads, then cut swiftly to the Danube, north...
...Royal Scandal (20th Century-Fox) was originally a play called The Czarina, a distinctly minor example of the Budapest school of perky lubricity. Some 20 years ago Director Ernst Lubitsch turned it into Forbidden Paradise, one of the shrewdest high-comedies in screen history. Producer Lubitsch's new version, which is directed by Otto (Laura) Preminger, has its points too, most of which are named Tallulah Bankhead. But all told, they just about manage to get the show...