Word: austro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing village at Lequeitio, Spain, where Prince Otto has grown up in exile, tutored by monks, supported by King Alfonso XIII of Spain and the contributions of loyal Austro-Hungarian nobles. As Otto's impoverished little suite descended at the Luxembourg station, they were met by a half dozen open landeaux, bearing the arms of Luxembourg. Whips cracked, the landeaux rattled merrily down a long avenue and over a viaduct, picked their way through cobbled, streets, drew...
...Vienna were published recently certain letters of the late Count Conrad von Hotzendorff, War-time Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army. They contain the assertion that in 1915 Great Britain offered to make peace with Germany, proposing among others the following terms...
...There are main causes of the great struggle,--the Franco-German antagonism over Alsace and Lorraine; the Anglo-German antagonism about the fleet, and the Austro-Russian antagonism about hegemony in the Balkans. Of these three the last was by far the most important factor in producing...
...Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Reorganization of Germany" Professor Langer, Harvard 6, History...
Unique. Born 50 years ago in Vienna, young Ignaz Seipel became first a priest, and then a professor who mingled strangely political science with moral theology in such books as The Economic Teaching of the Fathers (1907). Later his writings upon statecraft in support of the Austro-Hungarian Empire won him the approval of the Habsburgs and during the World War, a cabinet post...