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Died. Baroness Louise Poglodowska, once famed beauty of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, onetime mistress of Archduke Otto (father of the late Emperor Karl) by whom she bore two children; in a Vienna hospital, in destitution. Otto took her from the theatre when she was 22, established her in a Vienna suburb, gave her the run of his Schönau Palace. She nursed Otto on his deathbed, was granted 200,000 gold crowns by Emperor Franz Josef. After she married Baron Poglodowski the money was frittered away, her children emigrated to the U.S.; she was finally reduced to begging...
Rome, Nov. 19--The rise of Austria as a balancing factor" in the Danubian Basin with the full support of Italy was predicted tonight in a communique briefly outlining the results of the historic Austro-Italian conversations here...
...Austria last week the Schuschnigg Government blandly asked the Austro- American Magnesite Corp. for a "voluntary gift" of 200,000 schillings...
Without waiting for formal charges to be preferred, Austro-American Magnesite, promptly paid the requested...
...sovereigns of Italy, who behaved in every way as if their hostess were still an Em press. Getting down to brass tacks with royal directness, they proceeded to dicker, with Princess Maria sitting in, over whether Maria should marry Zita's handsome eldest son, Archduke Otto, the Austro-Hungarian Pretender...