Antara should have stayed clear of Austria

February 3, 1983, was memorable for several reasons.

It was Anjali's birthday and everyone forgot it was so. Ajit didn't remember, nor the sibling who was in Class 6 and ought to have kept it in mind, nor Antara who had started kindergarten. 

As dinner wrapped up, Anjali said, "It was my birthday". The embarrassment and sense of regret was difficult to describe. 

February 3, 1983, was apparently a memorable day at the White House as well. US President Ronald Reagan had met Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky (even as the Das family was forgetting it was Anjali's birthday.)

The press readout from the Reagan-Kreisky meet was along the following lines,

"...Chancellor Kreisky and I (President Reagan) have had the opportunity to discuss two areas of the world that are vital to the maintenance of peace and human dignity--the Middle East and Poland".

So this would be soon after the US Republicans had decided that Antara had no known connection to the RMS Titanic narrative? That if you brought millions of NRIs, the financial intrigues discussed aboard the RMS Titanic could be forgotten?

Worse, it was Washington DC, so there would be no regret or embarrassment either. "The CPM was sending over someone to save us from the complicated politics and discourse of the RMS Titanic."

How things could go wrong if a Hollywood personality became US President or if another (recently) was such a friend of INC that he agreed to bankroll AAP.

Thankfully, the eternal threat to global news media organisations was solved. There'd be huge investments to news media if the journalists agreed to reject German intelligence from WWII and declare loyalty to Chetla. Another profession bit the dust under the indomitable force of Ronald Reagan's Chetla project. In good time, Antara had exited the profession.

ii. When discussing the PEPFAR route that Chetla might take to Vienna, Antara should have thought of easier alternatives for Chetla. 

The White House press readout from Feb 3, 1983, mentioned "seven US Presidents" that enjoyed a vibrant relationship with Austria, it seemed to indicate that the Chetla project had White House approval from Harry Truman onwards. 

It went on to say, "Austria...is still grateful for all which has been done during more than 35 years by the United States." What was the implication of such a statement? Austria that had been part of the Third Reich, which had hosted Nazi death camps, which had a lot of explaining to do, why was it stable and prosperous because of the US, "the relations between the United States and Austria are completely without frictions"?

It was one thing that the United States of the 1950s read sci-fi and suppressed Nazi Holocaust research ('About Bangladesh', FACSIMILE blogpost, Nov 20, 2025). It was quite another if it suppressed Holocaust research especially for the sake of Austria.

Austria was a disgraced, ruined nation after 1938. After WWII, it seemed to have been hand-held to stability and prosperity by a Truman-Philby initiative. That's where Chetla and the Obamas wanted to go, and Antara had been fighting them, without knowing it was part of the US Govt's rewards? We did it for you, what did we get?

It couldn't get worse, Antara thrusting herself into the middle of groups of Holocaust perps wrangling with each other. Go ahead, send whoever you wanted to Vienna, what a shameful experience to even know of such things.

iii. Antara didn't want to prolong this particular blogpost. She'd want Indians to remember that she helped them with crucial information through their instability episodes. She'd want Germans to remember that despite the Nazi Holocaust, she was always considerate of a German perspective. She'd always support peace but not a humiliating one.

iv. As Antara had found out, many of the blackmails against Austria, with Indian Communists, were from envoy Ulysses S Grant-Smith's stay in Hungary during 1920-21. Many of these blackmails were about the Austrian police/gendarmes, these police troops were later locked up, dismissed, transferred etc after the 1938 Anschluss. 

Why the Austrian gendarmes were distrusted by the Third Reich was the Indian Communists' stance, it might have helped Truman approve the Chetla Project.

November 20, 2025.