763.0221/11–1854: Telegram
No. 940
The United States High Commissioner
for Austria (Thompson) to the Department of
State1
1084. Pass G–3 DEPTAR. General Arnold and I saw Raab and Figl this morning. Raab stated that by agreement with Schaerf, he would neither be making nor asking any commitments during his trip to Washington.
General Arnold informed him of the plan to bring some Trieste troops to Austria. Raab merely commented that there was no limitation on the size of our forces here and seemed well satisfied with the General’s explanations concerning housing and total strength.
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We also raised question of rail rates and Raab said he would ask Schaerf and Waldbrunner to endeavor to settle this problem during his absence. Kamitz had told me a few days before that he thought the Cabinet had not accepted our proposal because they were not convinced that this was as far as we could go and that, if we could make clear to Raab no further bargaining on rates was possible, Austrians would settle the question. We made clear that we had made our maximum offer.
- Repeated to Paris for Reinhardt.↩