Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duchess of York, weekending with the Earl & Countess of Pembroke, reacted with hard gaiety on Sunday to a cautious question by a titled guest as to whether the King is resolved to marry Mrs. Simpson. "Everyone knows more than we do," replied the Duchess of York, "we know nothing. Nothing!" Her Royal Highness followed this with a brittle laugh.* To Edinburgh this week traveled the Duke of York to be installed as Grand Master Mason of Scotland...
...first time since the World War the historic gold-banded dinner service of the House of Habsburg gleamed on the banquet table in the Hall of Mirrors. Faded Habsburg livery was unpacked and donned by Austrian flunkies to wait upon the daughter of Europe's modern Caesar, Edda, Countess Ciano. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg came with Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, a devout Monarchist who would like to restore the Habsburgs with young Archduke Otto enthroned at Vienna as Emperor...
...banquet last week was given to celebrate the creation of another Empire, that which Italy has carved in Ethiopia. Countess Edda was accompanied by her husband, Il Duce's protégé: the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano. This amiable and rather plump young man has had difficulty in acquiring the mien of his father-in-law the Dictator, but has now learned to frown almost without visible effort. It was a proud moment when even the U. S., British and French ministers to Austria raised their wine glasses as Chancellor Schuschnigg proposed the toast to Mussolini...
...Countess Edda's husband last month made a pact with Herr Hitler (TIME, Nov. 2) who effusively pressed upon him the supreme Nazi gift: a copy of Mein Kampf "from the hands of Der Führer himself and with his so-gemütlich autograph." Last week Count Ciano was doing Austria and Hungary. By themselves Austria and Hungary have been timid about breaking the post-War treaties intended to hog-tie them but last week, feeling they were under Dictator Mussolini's broad wing, they joyously slipped these bonds. In a joint Italian-Austrian-Hungarian communiqu...
Foreign Minister Kánya hustled off by a midnight train to make sure that Budapest would give Count and Countess Ciano the most superlative of welcomes. They slept most of the night in their private car in Vienna Station, then slid comfortably off to be greeted at Hungary's border by deafening peasant cheers, repeated at every station. Alighting at Budapest amid such a wild ovation as only emotional Hungarians can outpour, Countess Ciano kissed a small Budapest lass with Latin warmth and cried, "This kiss means Italy's love for all Hungarian girls...