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Show AMERICANS TELL j OF KIND CONDUCT OF THE VIENNESE VIENNA, Thursday. Nov. 21 (P.y the Associated Press). The shadows of defeat, de-feat, hunger and financial ruin have not yet blighted the spirit of Vienna, said to be the gayest and most beautiful of the European capitals. Hundreds of Americans who have lived here during the war speak highly of the courage, fortitude and kindliness of the citizens of Vienna, who did not molest or intern them after the United States entered the war, and in many instances aided them with loans 4 money. All realize they are living amid famine and are loaded down with debt. Fathers of men killed or made prisoner keep smiles on their faces. r- "What can we do about it? It surely can be no worse in the future than in the past," is the commonest of the remarks re-marks heard. A peculiar fact is that there are few beggars about the streets of Vienna, I Thus far the correspondent has seen only I one beggar a little girl who timidly I stopped passers-by and asked for alms. |