Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parcel of assorted Bourbons from every branch of that intricate family. Occasion was the marriage in Vienna last week of Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, nephew of deposed Alfonso of Spain, to the Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, niece of deposed Empress Zita of Austria. Crowds gawked at the door of the church, admired the bride's silver lamé gown, the brilliant uniforms of the guests. Almost unnoticed in another part of Vienna was another wedding guest, Britain's onetime Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The presence of this British elder statesman with his monocle screwed into...
Wisest Vienna gossips were all repeating the same story: Weeks of excited shouting that Adolf Hitler was preparing another armed coup in Austria had finally roused Great Britain. Sir Austen Chamberlain, accompanied by Lord & Lady Astor, was in Vienna officially on a vacation trip. To informed observers, however, it was heavily significant that the Bourbon wedding was the chance of a lifetime to confer with all Austria's leading royalists at once. Sir Austen was supposed to have brought word from London that as a last resort against a Nazi Putsch in Austria, Britain was ready to back...
Every important Austrian statesman stayed in Vienna to interview Sir Austen last week. When four days after the wedding he jumped into a train for Prague, quidnuncs insisted it was to do his best to convince the suspicious Czechs that a Habsburg restoration in Austria would be less of a threat than Nazification to their country...
Married. Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, 34, nephew of Spain's deposed King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, 18, niece of Austria's deposed Empress Zita; in Vienna...
...JOHN OF AUSTRIA-George Slocombe-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Scholarly life of the illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who stopped the Moslems at Lepanto in 1571. For those who like their history in stern, stiff doses...