Word: habsburg
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...Interior Eduard Baar von Baarenfels, who was also named Commander of Starhemberg's technically disbanded Heimwehr. For Vice Commander of the Vienna Heimwehr Chancellor Schuschnigg passed over the-fawning application of Major Emil Fey and picked Baron Alfonse de Kloss whose wife is a cousin of Archduke Otto, Habsburg Pretender to the throne of Austria...
...Habsburg Archdukes crowded the aisles. Onetime King Alfonso of Spain and his venerable aunt the Infanta Eulalia were on hand as were the Wittelsbach Princes from Bavaria, the Princess Marie Pia of Orléans and a parcel of assorted Bourbons from every branch of that intricate family. Occasion was the marriage in Vienna last week of Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, nephew of deposed Alfonso of Spain, to the Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, niece of deposed Empress Zita of Austria. Crowds gawked at the door of the church, admired the bride's silver lamé gown...
Every important Austrian statesman stayed in Vienna to interview Sir Austen last week. When four days after the wedding he jumped into a train for Prague, quidnuncs insisted it was to do his best to convince the suspicious Czechs that a Habsburg restoration in Austria would be less of a threat than Nazification to their country...
...profitable product. In a Sherwood play, the boy practically never gets the girl for keeps. But the lovers generally have a few final poignant moments together. Before Hannibal went back to Carthage in The Road to Rome (1927), he spent one night with Amytis. Before Archduke Rudolf Maximilian von Habsburg was rushed out of Austria in Reunion in Vienna (1931), he was vouchsafed an evening with his old girl, Elena. In The Petrified Forest (1935), Public Enemy Duke Mantee killed Alan Squier before he had done much more than nuzzle Gabrielle. What happens to Harry and Irene in Idiot...
...Benes in the election Dec. 18. Since the wreck of the Habsburg Empire was in no small part the work of Dr. Masaryk, in Vienna last week the Neues Wiener Tagblatt exulted with Restorationists: "The foes of the Habsburgs pass! Lloyd George, for adequate reasons, was sentenced to political obscurity long ago. Wilson, Poincare, Clemenceau and Foch are dead. Masaryk has resigned...