Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smart as he looks, the knife-nosed Emperor, having received Il Duce's ultimatum demanding salutes, indemnities and establishment of a neutral zone, sent down to the frontier of Italian Somaliland an Abyssinian mission with a Swedish and a Belgian military observer "to ensure fairness in establishing the neutral zone," ignored Il Duce's demands for salutes, indemnities
This produced in Rome profound explosions of Fascist wrath. At the Dictator's press bureau, run by his affable son-in-law Count Gelasio Ciano, the official spokesman said furiously of Abyssinia's Emperor "He was 'being smart!' Our Minister to Abyssinia has informed the Abyssinian Government that their unilateral effort will not stand...
Possibly to fight for Abyssinia, one U. S. Negro sailed on the Europa last week. He was "Harlem's Black Eagle," the "Negro Lindbergh," famed Col. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian who insists that the Emperor of Abyssinia made him a Colonel nearly five years ago in Addis Ababa (TIME...
...Castle and took snapshots like any other tripper. Afterward, not satisfied with the Schönbrunn guide books, he sent out an aide to get research material on that House of Habsburg that was once accustomed to occupy Schönbrunn in the summertime and on its last great Emperor, long-legged, Dundreary-whiskered Franz Josef...
...nbrunn Park and called on Franz Josef's best friend in a villa hard by. Katharina Schratt was a popular Viennese actress in her middle twenties and Kaiser Franz was nearly 30 years older when they met. Their relationship was as respectable as the staid, fussy Emperor could make it. In full uniform he used to go to her villa at 4:30 a.m. three times a week, have a stiff formal breakfast with her. The Empress was as good a friend of Käthi Schratt as he was. One by one Franz Josef's family died...