Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Ethiopia's wily Emperor was similarly stalling. By maneuvers so involved that outside the diplomatic arena they would be highly ridiculous, Italy and Ethiopia were fencing to force the League Council to take up the case from a juridical angle most favorable to each. Geneva wiseacres predicted that the Council will deliver its usual masterstroke, namely postpone everything to the next League session of the Assembly in September...
...shade of a pavilion and 9,000 warriors-a full-strength British war division-began marching, trotting, speeding and clanking past. Over one-half of this modern Army display was not afoot or ahorse. So-called "motor cavalry" dashed past in light cars. Heavy tanks saluted the King Emperor by turning their gun turrets with massive precision to the angle U. S. soldiers call "eyes right." After God Save the King had been played so softly that it sounded like a prayer, the cry rose "Three cheers for His Majesty!" As they were given the royal right hand remained motionless...
...disposal of fanatically pious, fanatically ambitious, hawk-eyed onetime Austrian Empress Zita. Last week this talented schemer, a veritable Metternich in silk skirts, provoked a nationwide Austrian sensation by having her handsome, silky-mustached young Son Archduke Otto announce that he expects to return to Vienna not as Emperor but as "Regent in the name of my mother." This move of Zita's had the aroma of Papal diplomacy, fine and fragrant as musk. In Vienna the Catholic cohorts of Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, ardent restorationists, have been sorely troubled because hot-headed Vice Chancellor Prince Ernst Rudiger...
...late Father Kaiser Karl, was called upon by that deposed monarch in his last years and commanded in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost to give back the Hungarian Throne to His Apostolic Majesty. This did not work. Clearly last week the idea of making "Emperor Otto" his own throne-squatter as Regent was among the best ideas the House of Habsburg has had in years. It was, however, not good enough to satisfy "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," famed Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual squatter in the post of Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and nemesis...
...Benes envisioned. In snug, smug Habsburg circles last week chances were considered better than good that, if Otto is first proclaimed merely Regent in Vienna, the Great Powers will keep the Little Entente in check, promising to let them act if attempts are made to restore him as Emperor. Then in a few years, after people have got used to Regent Otto on the Austrian Throne, who is going to care enough to fight about whether he is crowned...