Word: habsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the Army at Virginia's Fort Myer went (Archduke) Felix Habsburg, 26, brother (Archduke) Charles Ludwig, 24, brothers of Austrian Pretender Otto. Enlistment being out, they had "volunteered for immediate 'induction," will probably be assigned to the new U.S. battalion of Austrians after preliminary training at Camp...
...When Archduke Otto visited Chicago, the Tribune mentioned the arrival of Otto Habsburg...
...gasping with pleasure. Strauss's rose-tinted melodies (conducted by Viennese Maestro Erich Korngold, specially imported from Hollywood for the job) set its opening-night audience to swaying in their seats, caused at least one white-haired fan, Walter Damrosch, to go shagging down the aisle like a Habsburg jitterbug...
...questionable political activities, the thought that he was helping to spread the gospel of Christ must often have been a source of strength and consolation. True, his enemies in Spain and Austria and at the Roman Curia accused him of using his missionaries as French agents and anti-Habsburg fifth columnists. And, alas, the charge was not entirely baseless...
Thus last week the free Swiss acted out the ceremony that gave them their freedom. Six hundred and fifty years before, representatives of the three "forest cantons" of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden had gathered in the same glade to light a fire symbolizing their confederation against the house of Habsburg. To celebrate their independence day the Swiss every year build huge leaping bonfires instead of shooting off fireworks...