Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in years were allowed to talk to the Press. Baron von Wiesner. who presided, was said to have declared: "The law passed by the former Socialist Government, banishing the Habsburgs from Austria, will be rescinded by the Cabinet within a month. The former Empress and Emperor Otto will return as soon as practicable...
...head of the Heimwehr. was last week offered the post of Minister without portfolio in the Dollfuss Cabinet. Two weeks before he had said: "Reports that I am aiming at the crown are entirely untrue. I will not be a competitor of the Habsburgs. Otto is the only possible Emperor." If Otto should be restored it would bring certain definite advantages to Austria. The minor squabblings of Heimwehr, Christian Socialists, and Dollfuss Front members would end once they had a common figure to rally round. There would be a new, possibly a more glamorous figure to draw impressionable youth from...
...woman is allowed to look on Annam's Emperor sitting under the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in the Throne Room. But the palace has other rooms for the parties Bao Dai dearly loves. To one such party lately went a pretty 18-year-old girl from French Cochin-China to the south. She was a commoner, daughter of a well-born Chinese ex-Governor and her name was Marie Nguyen Hu Hao. She, too, had been edu-cated in Europe, in a convent near Paris. She liked detective stories and jazz and was ready...
...appealed to Archbishop Dreyer, Apostolic Delegate to Indo-China at Hanoi. Would His Grace ask the Pope for a special dispensation? She offered the Church the female issue of her mixed marriage. Would that be enough? She hoped, in all piety and humility, for a speedy reply, for the Emperor had fixed his wedding for March...
...Habichtsburg or Habsburg ("Hawk's Castle") on the Aar near its junction with the Rhine. The House has never produced a great statesman or a great warrior. Two traits its sons have in- herited, a prognathous jaw and enormous physical fertility. They became successively Kings of the Germans, Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, Kings of Spain, and Emperors of Austria. The Habsburg talent for successful marriages made it possible for their greatest son; the Emperor Charles V (1500-58 j to rule what is nowr Hungary, Austria, most of Germany, most of France, most of Italy, the Netherlands...