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Archduke Felix, tall, thin, third-string heir to Austria-Hungary's vanished throne, bobbed up in Mexico City (first Habsburg to visit Mexico since his ancestor, the Emperor Maximilian, was shot there), denied that his visit was political, failed to get audiences with Mexico's President Avila Camacho. Russia's Ambassador Constantine Oumansky departed declaring that if he had his way Spanish would replace German as Austria's national tongue...
...Among these are the public reward of deserving citizens who have rendered outstanding service to the state, although this should not necessarily be done in perpetuity, as is often the case with our British cousins-a conspicuous example being the reward bestowed upon Prime Minister Winston Churchill's ancestor, the Duke of Marlborough, for his services on the field of battle which I understand his descendants still enjoy...
Arriving in a railroad station in Rossmore, Illinois, after a trip to New York to sell a historical book about his famous ancestor, Cooper, as Cas Q. Brown, is met with a big kiss and a case of the sniffles by Anita Louise, his one-and-only-at-the-time. A few quick scenes take care of talks with poppa, profligatish Frank Morgan at his usual best, and preliminary preparations for the wedding. Comes the day of the wedding rehearsal, comes a letter from the Ellen Harris Maternity Hospital suggesting immediate consultations, comes a big headache for Cooper...
...impulses of human kindness and the teachings of the Catholic Church should now yield to a false, pagan code of tyranny because of blood and race. How can men of good will fail to heed those solemn words of Pope Pius XI: 'Abraham is called our patriarch, our ancestor. Anti-Semitism is not compatible with the sublime reality of this text. It is a movement in which we Christians cannot share. Spiritually we are Semites...
...referring to Count Eric von Rosen whose name has been mentioned in connection with me elsewhere in the press and even in Congress. Eric von Rosen, it is true, is a relative of mine, but you will have to go back five generations to find a common ancestor. As far as I can remember I met Eric von Rosen only once in my life and that was about 20 years ago. Unfortunately for me, he is a brother-in-law of Hermann Göring, his wife's sister being the first wife of Hermann Göring...