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Meanwhile in separate rooms of the Palais Bourbon two unwieldy parliamentary committees continued their respective investigations of the causes of the rioting on Feb. 6 and of the Stavisky scandal. In the room generally reserved for the committee on the army and handsomely decorated with battle pictures, sat the 44 members of the Commission d'enquête sur les événements du 6 Février et jours suivants, better known as "The Committee of the Bloody Days." Its chairman, Deputy Bonnevay of the Rhone, boasts a pair of the finest sidewhiskers in all France...
...pitiful attempt to come back in 1921. Last week Archduke Otto remained safely in his mouldy castle in a wood near Brussels, refused ail interviews. His mother, the Empress Zita, now a dour-faced widow, was in Paris at the bedside of her brother, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, desperately ill with an infected heart. The body of Otto's father, the Emperor Karl, lay in a rusty vault on the island of Madeira under a heap of ancient wilted wreaths from European royalty. One thing the Dollfuss Heimvehr Government is most likely to do for the Habsburgs...
...have passed to the Emperor's nephew. Franz Ferdinand, had not that Archduke been assassinated with his morganatic wile at Sarajevo in 1914. Although Franz Ferdinand had three children, Sophie, Maximilian, and Ernst, the crown went to Franz Ferdinand's nephew, Karl, husband of sober Zita de Bourbon, who was one of the 18 children of Robert Duke of Parma. Curly-haired Otto, the acknowledged heir, was their eldest child. Maximilian, son of Franz Ferdinand, is very much alive, and carries on the family fertility by having produced four more Habsburg princelings since his marriage...
...newsboys to hawk their papers by name. Hereafter they may shout only "morning pa- per" or "evening paper." Finally he got the Cortes to allow him 27,000 more Civil and Assault Guards and got a vote of con- fidence for his Cabinet, 148 to 24. To Alfonso Bourbon y Asturias, no longer King of Spain but still an Austrian Archduke. Duke of Burgundy and Count of Habsburg. all this was but a faint rumor. Last week he was deep in the Sudan, hunting lion and buffalo. He had a bad moment when a native police patrol mistook his party...
...that 5,000 foot and mounted police were thrown around the Chamber of Deputies. Angry citizens resumed their anti-Government demonstrations, shouted hour after hour in the direction of the Chamber "Assassins! Thieves! Staviskys!" Royalist demonstrators shouting "Down with the Republic!" and "Long live the Due de Guise!" [the Bourbon pretender to the Throne of France who lives in Belgium] smashed windows, tore up paving stones which they hurled at the police and thoroughly frightened U. S. tourists in a nearby hotel...