Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern Tyrol have no great love for either the pan-Italians or the pan-Germans. Before the War 'our country,' rising mountainously on both sides of the higher reaches of the river Adige, was one of the most nearly autonomous regions in the Austrian Empire. The aged Emperor Franz Josef knew how to don our peasant garb and come among us, amiably pretending to be a Tyrolese and speaking our peculiar dialect, just as he used to perform this same gracious gesture among all of his subject peoples. The Habsburgs left us more or less to ourselves; now the Allies...
...world is stony and studded with thorns as well as gold. She attends a vast banquet in the Hall of a count's castle, she becomes the bride of an emperor. And at last she faces death and revolution (black and red) and the winter night, cold and miserable...
...Prince is "a descendant of the Holy Roman Emperors," a Hapsburg, and a grandson of Feldmarschall Alfred Windisch-Graetz who put down the Kossuth revolution of 1848. Once he was the intimate adviser of the ill-fated Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary (1915-1918), and he is the present owner of the famed Eleventh Century castle at Saros-Patak. He is well known as "the most notorious titled gambler in Budapest," and is an avowed Fascist champion of the Archduke Albrecht as King of Hungary. The French detectives ferreted into his affairs excitedly...
There are so many equally powerful "royal" families in what is now Hungary that probably only the Hapsburgs, who have worn "the Holy Crown of Empire," possess sufficient prestige to reign over this country of mixed races. The Prince Otto of Hapsburg, son of the late abdicated Emperor Karl, grandson of famed Emperor Franz Josef, is the "legitimate heir." Were it not for the external pressure of the Allies, he would probably be welcomed as king by his father's subjects, who have made it clear at the polls that they desire to be governed by "a king...
Wilhelm's relations with Harden were highly interesting on three occasions: 1) The day when the Emperor had Harden clapped into a damp fortress at the mouth of the Vistula for lèse majesté. 2) The night on which the Imperial Chancellor secretly conveyed a large sum of money to release Prisoner Harden. 3) The day of Wilhelm's abdication, when he declared: "Now Germany must send Harden to Versailles. He is my greatest enemy, and has been so from the beginning; but Germany has no better peace-maker...