Word: habsburg
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...best-born pretender in Europe, Otto of Habsburg, ''Emperor of Austria and Apostolic King of Hungary," was so chagrined by George's good luck that he hastened to rebuke Austria for not having done the same for him, indicated that he is the solution to Europe's peace and hoped that Austria would hurry before it was obliged to summon him to rule "a heap of ruins...
...advisers that Prince von Starhemberg as Regent would be another detestable throne-squatter like the one in Budapest who will not get up. There lantern-jawed, leather-necked old Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya has reigned 15 years as Regent-presumably for Otto who is indisputably the rightful Habsburg heir to Hungary's crown as well as Austria's. Admiral Horthy, who had sworn fealty upon the Holy Bible to Otto's late Father Kaiser Karl, was called upon by that deposed monarch in his last years and commanded in the name of the Father...
...Rumania, since Hohenzollern King Carol's youngest sister is the Archduchess Ileana of Habsburg, family ties kept the official press mum. At a meeting of the National Peasant Party, which spends most of its time exhorting King Carol to dismiss his red-headed Jewish mistress, Archduke Otto was introduced last week as a welcome change of subject. Peasant Party orators thundered that the Little Entente will, if necessary, fling its three oversized armies totaling some 635,000 men against Austria or Hungary to repel the Habsburgs...
...Hungary teem with assorted illegal armaments, but neither could put in the field forces strong enough to cope with the Little Entente. That job, shrewd Zita thinks, will be taken on by the Great Powers to prevent just such a general war as Dr. Benes envisioned. In snug, smug Habsburg circles last week chances were considered better than good that, if Otto is first proclaimed merely Regent in Vienna, the Great Powers will keep the Little Entente in check, promising to let them act if attempts are made to restore him as Emperor. Then in a few years, after people...
...that businesslike Mme Lupescu will sell anything at a fair price. At the close of last week's parley. Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu of Rumania announced with dignity and menace: "Mobilization of the Little Entente's armed forces will follow as a matter of course if the [Habsburg] dynasty is re-established in Vienna...