Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Four Austrians who work for the U. S. state department in their home country are in Oklahoma this week to spend three days each on Oklahoma farms."

Letter to Cecile from her father about his dental health and the war.

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Photograph of three soldiers sitting under a sign that says "You are now entering Austria thru the courtesy of the VI U.S. Corps." A hillside with trees is visible on the left.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the head of a group of oil producing nations who said in Vienna that oil taxes may be hiked instead of oil prices when a freeze expires on July 1st.

This report looks at how the European Union Emission Trading Scheme's coverage of carbon emission from commercial flights affects air carriers from the United States and other countries.

This report provides a background of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), financial crisis and the issues for Congress.

This report examines the evolution of counterterrorism cooperation between the United States and the European Union (EU), particularly since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It includes a discussion of U.S.-EU cooperation progress and ongoing challenges, as well as perspectives and issues for Congress.

Franz Schreker (1878-1934) was a Jewish-Austrian composer of great success during the first decades of the twentieth century. Schreker’s reputation diminished after 1933 when Hitler came to power and, in 1938, his compositions were labeled Entartete Musik (“degenerate music”) by the Nazis in a public display in Düsseldorf. The Third Reich and post-war Germany saw Schreker as a decadent outcast, misunderstanding his unique style that combined elements of romanticism, expressionism, impressionism, symbolism, and atonality. This study of Schreker’s Lieder will pursue two goals. First, it will analyze the Mutterlieder (before 1898), the Fünf Gesänge (1909), and the first piece from Vom ewigen Leben (1923) stylistically. Schreker composed nearly four dozen Lieder, incorporating a wide range of styles and ideas. By studying and performing these songs written at various points in his career (including early songs, songs written after he met Schoenberg, and his last songs during the height of his fame), I hope to develop a clearer understanding of how Schreker synthesized the many cultural forces and artistic movements that seem to have influenced his compositional style. Second, this study will consider the sociopolitical circumstances that fueled the disintegration of his reputation. This disintegration occurred not just during the Third …

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

This report is designed to shed some light on the KOREU FTA for Congress.4 It briefly reviews EU-South Korean economic ties and the respective EU and South Korean objectives regarding the KOREU FTA. It then discusses the KOREU FTA in general and examines some of its major provisions in more detail, with special focus on autos and some other manufacturing sectors, agriculture, services, and labor-areas of particular interest to U.S. policymakers and the U.S. business community. The report does not attempt to determine if one FTA is better than the other. Finally, the report analyzes the prospects for the KOREU FTA and the agreement's potential implications for the United States.

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Sam Litvin providing an update on European travel plans and suggesting an inquiry about visas.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Lee Guth discussing changes to a proposed itinerary for a trip to Europe in the summer and fall of 1956.

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Lee Guth of the Continental-American Travel, Inc., New York, regarding the details of a corrected itinerary for a trip to Europe dated May 16th.

Handwritten letter from Sam Litvin to Daniel W. Kempner discussing visas for their upcoming trip in Europe.

Letter from Grand Hotel De L'Europe in Badgastien, Austria, to Continental-American Travel Inc. offering a reservation at the hotel for Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Kempner and Miss Gladys Kempner from August 31 to September 3, 1956.

Report which discusses issues related to the North Atlantic Trade Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU) including the level of involvement of the entities in using political and military actions to defend against terrorism and proliferation, the types of military forces necessary, the role of the EU in crisis management, the appropriateness of decision-making procedures to respond to emerging threats, and the role of other international institutions.

Overall, there are two sets of questions for Congress in examining U.S. policy toward the fate of the EU’s arms embargo on China. What are the implications for U.S. interests in trans-Atlantic relations and China? If U.S. interests are adversely affected, what are some options for Congress to discourage the EU from lifting its arms embargo on China and, if it is lifted, to protect U.S. national security interests in both Asia and Europe? Issues raised by these questions are the subject of this CRS Report.

Photograph of snowy alps in Austria, taken from a field below.

Photograph of homes in a neighborhood in Austria, with snowy alps in the distance in the background.

Letter from Jeane B. Kempner to Clark W. Thompson requesting letters of introduction addressed to U.S. Ambassadors to Switzerland, France, Austria, and Germany for her summer trip to Europe.