Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich Hungarian associates to promote the candidacy of her son Albrecht for the Throne. This was the great lady's second attempt to snatch the Crown of St. Stephen for one of her blood. Before the War she tried, with the consent and active encouragement of doddering old Emperor Franz Josef, to marry one of her daughters to the heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. At her palace in Pressburg, where he had been invited to fall in love with her daughter, the obstinate young man conceived a blind passion for Sophie Countess Chotek, a mere lady-in-waiting to Isabella...
...scandal of all Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand married his Sophie. Later they were assassinated together at Serajevo. Whispers have it that implacable Archduchess Isabella's comment on the crime which started the World War was: "It served them right...
...aided by quite the most resolute and grim of Hungarian statesmen, Julius Ritter Gömbös von Jákfa, Minister of War. Soon after his appointment (TIME, Oct. 21), he restored the practice of flogging Hungarian soldiers for the slightest infraction, an historic Habsburg barbarity abolished in 1855 by Franz Josef. Tooth and nail War Minister Combos has fought the restoration of Karl's son, famed "Little Otto." Several times the election of Isabella's Albrecht as King of Hungary has seemed almost a sure thing. But suddenly, fortnight ago, Albrecht sought out "Little Otto" in Belgium, knelt before...
...would become his mistress. This of course would not have affected his candidacy?a King may look, and more than look, at a wench. But to her horror Archduchess Isabella discovered that her son was resolved to marry the woman, had set his heart on her as stubbornly as Franz Ferdinand fixed his on Sophie Chotek...
...Vienna a few days after Albrecht acclaimed Otto. Wily ex-Empress Zita, Otto's mother, saw in the death a chance to bring all remaining Habsburgs under her son's banner. Magnificently she ordered a royal funeral for the pauper, had him interred next to the bones of Emperor Franz Josef and for the first time in more than a decade Vienna saw the yellow and black flag of the Habsburgs on public view...