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Into the Army in Manhattan went Prince Gaëtan de Bourbon-Parme, 37-year-old brother of former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary, week after the induction of his nephews (Archdukes) Felix and Charles Ludwig. The nephews will probably wind up in the much-criticized battalion of Austrian nationals promoted by brother Pretender Otto, but Uncle Gaëtan, a descendant of Louis XIV, is a French citizen and ineligible...
...other point also: to monarchists the Comte de Paris is considered Henri VI. The Comte de Chambord, last of the main line of the Bourbon House, is often spoken of as Henri V in history books, encyclopedias and biographies. On the abdication of his grandfather, Charles X, in August 1830 he was proclaimed King Henri V, and several times from 1870 until his death in 1883 he was spoken of in Government circles as Henri V. I think you will find that all but officially Chambord is considered as Henri V of France. It is quite likely that Paris might...
There were two men who knew more about this than anyone else. One was the French Pretender himself. Slender, sharp-nosed, soft-chinned Henri de Bourbon-Orléans, Comte de Paris, 34, was last week, as French law requires of pretenders, in exile. This descendant of the effulgent Bourbon kings through Louis Philippe d'Orléans was biding his time in a sprawling white villa in the quiet little Spanish Moroccan port of Larache, only 600 miles from the headquarters of U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower...
...Women praying for Prohibition near polling places are blamed by wet leaders for the loss since September of seven Kentucky counties to the drys. (Bourbon-famed Kentucky now has 66 dry counties, 54 wet.) The wets demanded that the vote be thrown out because the praying pickets intimidated the voters. Assistant Attorney General Guy Herdman has ruled against the wets. Said he: "Unless you could establish that praying affected the result, it would not invalidate the election. No voter would be so weak as to admit that these prayers so frightened him as to intimidate him to vote...
...church over early child training and with business interests fearing leftism. At the same time the Falange has tangled with militarists who say they won the war and have a winner's right to rule, and with Monarchists who want Spanish rule returned to the House of Bourbon. Needing the Falange for political support, Franco also knows that its practices and pipsqueak pomp are anathema to the Spanish people...