Word: habsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Vienna's police said that he had been arrested by Russian soldiers. Wilhelm Habsburg-Lothringen, would-be King of the Ukraine, was resting quietly in Wiener-Neustadt's Soviet internment camp. The Russians, it appeared, were taking no chances even with ghosts...
...Communist-sponsored Government White Paper last week implicated Tildy in "the conspiracy against Hungarian democracy." At the same time it accused the British of encouraging a Habsburg restoration. Tildy still denied any uneasiness; he was quietly fishing in Lake Balaton last week, and telling callers: "I will not resign, I never intended to resign, I never attempted to resign." In spite of these protestations, he was, in fact, trying to flee the country of which he was President...
Died. Princess Louise of Saxony, 76, daughter of the last Grand Duke of Tuscany, onetime Habsburg Archduchess, whose romantic misadventures were a worldwide scandal 45 years ago; in Brussels...
...sped through the night, gaily lighted boats, like graceful waltzers on a vast mirror, drifted across the Lake of Zurich. This Aug. 1, 655 years had passed into history since the day in 1291 when peasants of the old cantons first learned from signal fires on the peaks that Habsburg rule had ended. This year as always, nearly all the day's eloquent oratory, in big cities or small hamlets, ended with the sentence from Schiller's William Tell: "Wir wollen frei sein wie die Voter waren" ("We swear we will be free as were our fathers...
...same Tyrolean ultra-conservatism that Napoleon failed to break brought them out to cheer Otto and Robert Habsburg who drove through the country a few months ago in a Mercedes with the royal crown on the radiator. An Allied directive from Vienna last month expelled the pair. Hotel Owner Franz Huber mourned: "I shall always keep my finest suite ready...