Word: austro-hungarian
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...petite Joan Roberts and bellowing Harry Stockwell have been joined in a slightly better than mediocre musical combining history and romance. The program lists Vienna as the scene, but a waltz strain now and then is all that is Viennese in the show. Aside from the costumes and snappy Austro-Hungarian salutes, it might take place in Chicago...
Fading Light. The 75-year-old regent for a nonexistent king, the admiral of a nonexistent fleet, stood with his host at the outsize picture window, looking down toward Salzburg and the Ostmark, once called Austria. It was in the Austro-Hungarian Navy before World War I that horse-loving Horthy got his admiral's stripes. It was from the hands of this onetime fellow subject of Kaiser Franz Josef that Horthy got the territorial plums which had made World War II so far so profitable. As he listened now to the Führer's rasping voice...
Archduke Felix, third-string heir to nonexistent Austria-Hungary's nonexistent Habsburg throne, was royally feted by U.S. diplomats in Uruguay, less royally received by Uruguay's powerful, liberal Austro-Hungarian colony...
Caught in Austria by World War I, he unwillingly served in the Austro-Hungarian infantry, was nearly sentenced to death for "political unreliability." When the Old Man became the head of the state, Jan's spirit of adventure had to be channeled into more representative endeavors. He worked in the Prague Foreign Office, as chargé d'affaires in Washington, as Dr. Benes' private secretary, in the Czech legation in London. From 1925 until he resigned in protest against the Munich deal, he was Czechoslovak envoy to the Court of St. James's. In a dinner...
...autobiography of a man and a movement," Count Coudenhove-Kalergi tells about the effect of Woodrow Wilson's oratory on liberal inhabitants of the old Austro-Hungarian empire. The Count was all for Wilson, but Versailles soon disillusioned him. Where Coudenhove-Kalergi had hoped for a united Europe in 1919, he soon discovered that every little language was getting a country...