Willi goes to work at the Trade Ministry

As he writes: "Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Taucher, former secretary of trade and commerce, president of the Styrian chamber of commerce [Graz is the capital city of the state of Styria] and administrator of the Marshal Plan in Austria, sponsored my further advancement." With a letter of recommendation from Dr. Taucher, Willi was hired by the Chief of the American desk at the foreign trade commission in Vienna, Dr. Kafka, on 22 February 1949.

Thus began a time that he describes as hard work and a certain amount of unpleasant political intrigue, even though he was a "political neutralist."