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...forswore the Orient to follow the Count's father to an estate in Bohemia. When her husband died, leaving her with seven children, the amazing Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi proved her Europeanization and her internationalization by administering the family estates and raising her brood as citizens of the "dual" Austro-Hungarian monarchy of the Habsburgs...
Austria-Hungary's handsome, exiled Empress Zita turned up in Washington the day after the Moscow Declarations were announced. There her eldest son, Otto Habsburg, pretender to the 25-years-gone Austro-Hungarian thrones and sponsor last year of the abortive Austrian Battalion (29 voluntary recruits), announced importantly that he was ready for anything, might be back in Vienna within a matter of months. Said one Austrian exile: "In America, Otto may still be a question; in Europe, he certainly...
Archduke Otto, 30-year-old Pretender to the throne of the nonexistent Austrian Empire, presumably fit for the Army, learned that he would be called to his local board within two months. His project to organize a special U.S. Army battalion of Austro-Hungarians had been abandoned by the Army and State Department as a nuisance...
...Department of Justice ruled last week that Koreans need not register as enemy aliens. Austro-Hungarians and Hungarians are also exempt, but Koreans are a special case. About the only people who know Koreans in the U.S. are other Koreans. The U.S. knows little about them; it does not know, for example, that Koreans have the unique distinction of getting on Japanese nerves...
Shirer describes the atmosphere in the newspaper circles of the Café Louvre: "Martha Fodor* is there, fighting to keep back the tears, every few minutes phoning the news to Fodor. Emil Maass, my former assistant, an Austro-American, who has long posed as an anti-Nazi, struts in, stops before the table. 'Well, meine Damen und Herren,' he smirks 'it was about time.' And he turns over his coat lapel, unpins his hidden Swastika button, and repins it on the outside. . . . Two or three women shriek: 'Shame!' at him. Major Goldschmidt, Legitimist, Catholic...