Word: habsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quick on her heels tumbled Otto von Habsburg ("Otto the Last"), who, after his anti-Nazi pronouncements...
...return to Paris after a six-week "study tour" of American democracy, Archduke Otto, Habsburg pretender to the throne of Austria, was asked what he thought of the U. S. Presidential campaign. Observed Otto: "No petty wrangling, and no personal rivalries. The national interest dominates...
Last week, at 84, the Gracious Lady quietly died. With her, since she never wrote a line of memoirs, she took thousands of secrets, some glorious, some pathetic, some just human, of the fallen House of Habsburg...
Among the witnesses of this brief ceremony was His Catholic Highness the Archduke Otto, pretender to the Habsburg thrones, Bailiff of the Catholic Order of the Knights of Malta. Otto sat near the Archbishop in the sanctuary, took third place (i.e., preceding the Archbishop and the Cardinal) when the procession left the Cathedral...
...accepted only one invitation (from the refugee Legitimist Austro-American League). He rather hopes to meet Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He said all he wanted was some sober fun, but his sympathizers, consisting principally of a few threadbare exiles who hang out in a Manhattan restaurant with a zither for Habsburg atmosphere, thought he would: 1) drum up sentiment for his Danubian Federation; 2) go to Canada to form the nucleus of an Austrian Legion at whose head he would some day ride to Imperial glory...