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...Hungary. In the baggage of the clerk and the mendicant monk (Felix Christian and Father Charles Otto by name) were some typical royalist pamphlets. More interesting were bundles and bundles of membership blanks for a League of Prayer the object of which is the formal beatification of the ex-Habsburg Emperor Karl I, indomitable Zita's late husband...
Ever since 1922 when Kaiser Karl died of pneumonia on the island of Madeira, indomitable Zita has worked, slaved, plotted to put her eldest, Otto, on the throne of Hungary. Everyone at all favorable to the Habsburg cause-from able, eagle-beaked Ignaz Seipel, twotime Chancellor of Austria, to the last lackadaisical Archduke-she has put to work. When Archduke Albrecht of Hungary formally renounced his aspirations to the throne two months ago (TIME, June 9), when Zita's brother, Prince Sixtus de Bourbon- Parme was given a secret and important interview with one of the most important opponents...
Firmly set against any Habsburg restoration in Hungary or elsewhere is Czechoslovakia. Not only is Czechoslovakia a bounden ally of the French, and thereby committed against the Habsburgs, but before the War a big slice of Czechoslovakia was Bohemia, one of the most obstreperous and least loyal sections of the loose-jointed; Austro-Hungarian Empire. Indomitable Zita has not given up all hope of winning back Austria. The best she can expect from Czechoslovakia is a sort of benevolent neutrality. Hence her League of Prayer and the proposed beatification of her husband.* For months Royalist agents and pro-Habsburg priests...
Rumanian Prime Minister Maniu as the stanch ally of France, which is violently opposed to any Habsburg restoration, buttressed his original announcement with these ominous words...
...rebuttal Count Bethlen flatly declared that Hungary does not interpret her pledges to the Council of Ambassadors in 1921 as the French do, namely as barring the restoration of a Habsburg. "This momentous question," he declared, "must be decided not on a personal basis but from the viewpoint of our domestic political situation and after negotiations with the powers...