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...several things to foster the return of His Apostolic Majesty. Under Chancellor Dollfuss the word "republic"' was stricken from Austria's Constitution. So was the phrase "the country's laws emanate from the people." The Constitution now reads "the country's laws emanate from God" and the House of Habsburg has always ruled "by the grace...
Another change was to restore in Austria the Habsburg Imperial anthem and uniforms. Today when in full dress an officer in the army of Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas can barely be distinguished from an officer of Kaiser Franz Josef. When Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria recently conferred with Premier Mussolini he vowed afterward that "even the name Habsburg was not mentioned." but no Italian doubted last week that Il Duce had merely found it more convenient to sav "Otto...
Under the post-War treaties France and her allies of the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia) have held out valiantly against a Habsburg restoration. Last week France was believed to favor Otto as an Austrian bulwark against Hitlerism, but the Little Entente was fearful, furious and suspicious. Man of peace though he has always been, Dr. Eduard Benes, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, has hinted that his country would "mobilize" should Otto be restored. No less restive are Kings Carol of Rumania and Alexander of Jugoslavia. The reason is simple: all three Little Entente countries contain huge slices...
...rural Austria and in the Hitlerphobia of the Great Powers. Old-fashioned Austrian Legitimists are never tired of harking back to the great oath which Kaiser Karl VI made all his subjects swear in 1724, pledging themselves and their descendants through all eternity to the House of Habsburg. These Legitimists have a pretty plan that Austria's "loyal provinces" should declare one by one that they are bound to Otto in virtue of the great oath. More likely to succeed seems a royalist putsch financed from Italy, though virtuous young Otto has said that he could never take a Throne...
Engaged. Archduke Otto, 21, Habsburg pretender to the Austrian throne; and Princess Maria, 19, youngest daughter of King Vittorio Emmanuele of Italy (see page...