Word: austro-hungarian
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Married. Otto of Habsburg, 38, pretender to the throne of the pre-World War I Austro-Hungarian empire; and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen-Hildburg-hausen, 26; in Nancy, France (see INTERNATIONAL...
When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia back in 1939, Hans Lenk's world was washed from beneath him. In the years after World War I-during which he served as a captain in the Austro-Hungarian army-he had built up a prosperous export business in Carlsbad. But the Nazis, busily stripping Jews of their fortunes, sent him to the Dachau concentration camp, then released him and told him to get out of the country-or else...
Colonel Alfred Redl was a master of his craft. While still in his 30s he rose to the General Staff and became chief of counter-intelligence for Austro-Hungary. His agents spider-webbed czarist Russia, and at home he confounded Russian spies who sought Austro-Hungarian military secrets. But talented Alfred Redl had one terrible weakness: he was a homosexual. Russian agents contrived a trap and caught him one day; then they threatened to expose him unless he turned traitor. Redl turned, for eleven years served Russia as a master spy-within-a-spy. The extent of his treason...
Married. Carl Ludwig von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria, 31, fourth son of Emperor Karl I, last ruler (1916-18) of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; and Princess Yolande de Ligne, 26, daughter of Prince Eugene de Ligne, Belgian ambassador to India; in an elaborate ceremony performed by the Primate of Belgium, at the De Ligne family castle, Beloeil, Belgium...
...master of Dunster House: "Professor Schumpeter has been associated with Dunster House almost since its inception. Busy with world affairs as well as his teaching. Professor Schumpeter nevertheless found time to take an interest in the meetings of the staff and students of the House. A native of the Austro-Hungarian empire, he brought a certain old-world courtliness into this dealings with men. This manner pointed up the elegance as well as the intellectual quality of his mind and word...