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...head of the Nazi Red Cross. When Sweden and Germany were expelling each other's nationals in 1936, Gustaf Adolf Jr. trotted off to Berlin to smooth things over with the Nazis. Moreover, in 1937, the Crown Prince's nephew, Prince Carl Jr., married Countess Elsa von Rosen, niece of Göring's friend Eric. Prince Carl was referred to in the German press at that time as a pro-Nazi member of the Swedish Royal Family...
...piece of unfinished business interrupted by the Nazi occupation of Denmark was Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow's long-awaited divorce from her Danish husband. Unless a decree making the divorce effective at once was already signed by King Christian, sealed and on a U. S.-bound liner before the Nazis put him under wraps, Danish Subject Barbara may have to stay married until February 1941, when her divorce automatically becomes final...
...Near East extremely important to the British Government, which needed to impress the late Turkish President Kamal Atatürk and tough King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Ibn Saud dined with a woman for the first time in his life when he sat down with the Countess of Athlone. Tactful "Aunt Alice" (to George VI) veiled herself like a model Mohammedan woman while in Arabia. (Back home she mildly startled England by becoming the first member of the royal family publicly to approve birth control.) London papers, which would never dare fake such a story, have asserted several times...
...Imperial tradition in the fulfillment of which Otto has disappointed his family is that a ruling Habsburg should marry royal blood. His backers begin to despair of his ever marrying. Once he was exposed to a young, pretty Hungarian Countess. The courtiers left the two pointedly alone in the family's Belgian garden. Shyly and silently Otto walked. Finally he looked at the Countess with his big, soulful brown eyes, relaxed his sullen Habsburg mouth into a smile, asked: "Have you ever considered how industrious ants are?" Industrious but not quite as systematic as an ant, Otto has worked...
...always what they appear. During the past six months Count Csáky made frequent trips to Germany which were interpreted as meaning that Hungary was drawing closer to Germany. Last week the suave, ambitious, reckless, 45-year-old Count's engagement to beautiful, 28-year-old Countess Anna Maria Chorinsky was announced. Those trips to Germany, it appeared, were just to court the pretty lady at her family castle near Graz...