AUSTRIA: Canned Cayuse

Vienna's Communist press last week told the Viennese how U.S. elections are won. The trick is to capture the unemployed cowboy vote by canning horses for the Marshall Plan.

Canned U.S. horse meat has long been a staple item in Vienna's food shops. Recently Viennese have been buying more of it because butcher shops have had no fresh meat. But only the Communists understood the situation. The Communist Sport-Tagblatt am Montag explained:

"Some big American packers have changed over entirely to horse meat and are working at full capacity. They've created enormous organizations to procure the horses, most of which come...

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