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...year ago this week, these Hungarians were creeping and running through the forests of the Austro-Hungarian border, slipping from beneath the eyes of machine-gunning Russian guards, losing their way along the winding, zig-zagging line that separated a ruined Hungary from a reborn and welcoming Austria...
...plot as a "fabrication," promptly retaliated. It expelled the Syrian ambassador, Dr. Farid Zeineddine, a garrulous and haughty diplomat who has never been a State Department favorite anyway. It was the first time the U.S. has declared a chief of mission persona non grata since Robert Lansing handed the Austro-Hungarian ambassador his walking papers in 1915. The State Department also announced that U.S. Ambassador to Syria James Moose (one of only three U.S. ambassadors in the Arab world who can speak the language) would not return to his Damascus post at the end of his present home leave...
Died. Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, 88, strongman of Hungary from 1920 to 1944; in his sleep; in Estoril, Portugal, where he had lived since 1948. A younger son of petite noblesse, Horthy became a naval cadet at 14, rose rapidly, was made admiral of the Austro-Hungarian fleet after he faced down a mutiny late in World War I. In 1920, as the apocalyptic Red Terror of Leninist Bela Kun burned itself out. Horthy seized Budapest, got himself declared Regent of Hungary, earned the enmity of his country's liberals by letting the bloody White Terror reaction...
...that the historical incident on which both the film and the show were based lacks interest. On the morning of the last day of January in 1889 Archduke Rudolph, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was found shot dead in the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling. Beside him, and apparently the second member of a suicide pact, lay the body of the young Countess Maria Vetsera. Their deaths were the culmination of a hopeless love affair--hopeless because Rudolph had been married long before he ever met Maria. Such a story is the stuff of which...
Died. Theodor Koerner, 83, President of Austria since 1951 and former mayor of Vienna (1945-51), a tall, white-bearded onetime aristocrat who became a hero early in World War I, was made chief of staff of Austro-Hungarian forces on the Italian front, in 1918 took an oath of loyalty to the first Austrian Republic after the collapse of the empire; of a stroke; in Grinzing, near Vienna...