Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Dieter Stiefel, Alice Teichova (Hrsg.): Sonderband 9. „Zarte Bande” – Österreich und die europäischen planwirtschaftlichen Länder / „Delicate Relationships” – Austria and Europe’s Planned Economies (2006)
Eduard Kubů: Restoration and Régularisation of Economie Cooperation under the Circumstances of Accelerating Cold War
natural outlet for Czechoslovakian coal and that the deliveries of coal from the Ruhr are only an emergency solution, which should not be regarded as the expression of a certain political orientation. During his stay in Prague, Heinl held talks with Hubert Ripka, the Minister of Foreign Trade, and Vaclav Majer, the Minister of Nutrition, and really succeeded in obtaining a promise that talks would be started to negotiate “a normal trade agreement”, which would bring fast extension of the exchange of goods, especially deliveries of coal and sugar.17 During his visit in late September, John Hynd, the British Minister for the Occupation Zones in Germany and Austria, welcomed the Czechoslovak-Austrian negotiations about the deliveries of coal and declared that Czechoslovakia and Poland were natural exporters of coal to Austria. However, British interests pursuing reduction in the export of coal from the Ruhr to Austrian lands were behind this declaration.18 19 Yet, none of the Allies resorted to a direct intervention aimed at ensuring coal deliveries for Austria, as had been the case after World War I.'» The trip of the Austrian State Secretary Franz Rauscher to Prague was an original act of Austrian approximation to Czechoslovakia. In Prague, he discussed the possibilities of coordinating the Austrian and Czechoslovak economic planning and discussed this issue with Bohumil LauSman, the Minister of Industry. However, no steps of this kind followed after this intermezzo.20 Czechoslovakia was seriously preparing for economic talks and on October 30, 1946, the representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Nutrition, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Health and entrepreneurial associations held a meeting where they discussed the import-related and export-related demands for the economic-political talks to be held with Austria.21 However, autumn showed a stop sign to the negotiations about a Restoration and Régularisation of Economic Cooperation 17 Ibid, Neues Österreich 25.9.1946, article „Die Verhandlungen des Ministers Dr. Heini in Prag. Wieder Wirtschaftsbeziehungen wie bis 1938 - Ausbau der freundschaftlichen Beziehungen von beiden Seiten gewünscht". 18 NAP, MFT, Nezpracované spisy (records out of evience - hereinafter referred to as ROE) 1946, dossier Hospodâfské informace [Economic reports], Report of Commissioner Borek-Dohalsky dated September 30, 1946. 19 Enderle-Burcel, Gertrude - Kubu, Eduard: Die österreichisch-tschechoslowakischen Handelsbeziehungen in der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit, ln: Österreich und die Tschechoslowakei (1918—1938), Die wirtschaftliche Neuordnung in Zentraleuropa in der Zwischenkriegszeit, Alice Teichova u. Herbert Matis Hg. Wien-Köln-Weimar 1996, p. 91-105; Kubu, Eduard: Verpolitisierter Export. Verhandlungen über die vertragliche Regelung tschechoslowakischer Kohlenexporte nach Österreich 1918-1921. Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Philosophica et historica 3/1994, Studia historica XL, Die Tschechoslowakei und Mitteleuropa in der Zwischenkriegszeit. Praha 1996, S. 169-191. 20 NAP, MFA - APC, box 412, Wiener Kurier 26.10.1946, article „Wirtschaftsplanung Österreichs und der ÖSR soll koordiniert werden“. 21 NAP, MFT, ROE 1946, dossier Rakousko [Austria 1946], Zâpis o poradâch konanÿch 30.10. o dovoznich a vÿvoznich po2adavcich pro obchodnë-politickâ jednâni s Rakouskem [Consultation 203
