Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This meant anything the Prime Minister chooses to make it mean. Little Otto is a "foreigner" only to the extent that he claims to be Emperor of Austria as well as King of Hungary. By renouncing the former claim (and there is no chance that the potent Austrian socialists would stand for a restoration) Otto could easily comply with the Count's condition, ascend the Throne as a 100% Hungarian King...
...island of Malta is a Roman Catholic, but bitter and never-ending is the feud between pro-Italian and pro-British factions, between the Archbishop of Malta and Prime Minister Baron Strickland. During the War, doughty John Miller, roughest hooligan anglophobe, had to be locked up with German and Austrian prisoners. Last week Mr. Miller proved that his hate of Britain has not cooled. He attacked the prime minister as he entered the Court of Appeal, fired one shot point blank and two others as he struggled with police. All shots missed...
...large and mediocre cast. But Director John Francis Dillon paid little attention to dialog and treated the central situation-a lady who, captured by an invading army, is asked to pay a painful price to save her husband's life-with inexcusable pomposity. Typical shot: the villainous Austrian colonel overcome by wine at a critical moment...
...remember a highly pleased, stiff necked Austrian aristocrat saying on his return to Vienna after the regatta, 'The secret of Lipton's success is that he makes every one round him feel so much at home. He made even the Kaiser feel at home aboard his own imperial yacht...
Claimants to the vacant throne include several archdukes, but the sole legitimate heir is "Little Otto," eldest son of the late, deposed Karl, Austrian Emperor, King of Hungary...