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The Future. We have not yet given the Austrians any clues as to what we plan for their future, what part they are to have in their immediate government, how the three areas are to be coordinated, what the requisites are for Austria becoming truly independent. Liaison with Russia is obviously poor. How much is Russia's fault and how much is ours, I do not know. Certainly the thread of confusion apparent in Salzburg is traceable to the highest levels of our three Allied governments.
While we delay, the Nazis have time to organize their underground. The first shock of defeat is wearing off and eventually the Germans are bound to realize what defeat means to them as a nation. When that realization comes, we can expect more signs of action.
On the bridge over the muddy Salzach River, where it twists through troubled Salzburg, a U.S. Army sign says: "Free Swing Concert Tonight in the Mozart Theater." In Salzburg it is swing, in Vienna it is a tune somewhat more familiar to European ears. But unless the orchestras get together, the Austrians are more likely to listen to a new variation of that old Horst Wessel Lied, sung by men who are now fugitives in the mountains.