Word: habsburgs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bewildered patriots wondered whom to believe, last week, when Hungary's two foremost Counts and statesmen made public and opposite answers to a vital question: "Is or is not the Archduke Otto of Habsburg now King of Hungary, since he has come of age?" (TIME...
...asked how he proposes eventually to fill the now vacant Throne of Hungary, a "Kingless Kingdom" ruled at present by His Serene Highness the Governor of the Kingdom, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. The question before Count Bethlen loomed as particularly opportune, because last week, the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, legitimate heir to the Throne, eldest son of the late Austro-Hungarian Emperor and King Karl, reached his age of majority...
...Since practically every Hungarian is a royalist, the perennial squabble between Budapest politicians is over whether to elect a king or to recognize the legitimate claim of Prince Otto of Habsburg. Last week legitimist Hungarians were wroth to the point of oaths and tears because Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen has just appointed the leader of the electionists, Herr Julius Gombos, to be Under Secretary...
...Vukitchevitch remains in power. On a previous occasion the Croatian Deputies stayed away for five years after making a similar threat. Bitter and thrice bitter are Croatians against Serbs, whom they consider to have robbed them of even those rights which they possessed when Croatia formed part of the Habsburg Austro-Hungarian realm...
...defeat was Caporetto (1917). Never can the fact be lived down that on that field some 265,000 Italians were taken prisoner with more than 3,000 guns. Flushed with victory, the eagles of Habsburg and Hohenzollern screeched the impending doom of Italy...