Word: habsburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna it was like old times. Austrian troops, goose-stepping down the Ringstrasse and past the Imperial Palace saluted a towering old field marshal beside whom Chancellor Schuschnigg and President Miklas of the Austrian Republic seemed dwarfed to insignificance Der Feldmarschall was His Imperial and Royal Highness Eugen von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria and cousin of Franz Josef. Among the field pieces which clattered Eugen, many were seen to exceed the 5.5 inch calibre to which Austria is limited by the Treaty of St. Germain. The big surprise to most Austrians, who thought they possessed no treaty-banned battle planes...
...Grand Cross of Austrian Merit and be pinned in return with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Since devout Catholic Schuschnigg is a passionate Monarchist he explained to the bored, irreligious French over & over just how wonderful it would be to proclaim deep-dimpled, wavy-haired Habsburg Archduke Otto as His Apostolic Majesty in Vienna...
...time, Britain's Edward of Wales last week inevitably went to see yellow-stuccoed Schönbrunn Castle and took snapshots like any other tripper. Afterward, not satisfied with the Schönbrunn guide books, he sent out an aide to get research material on that House of Habsburg that was once accustomed to occupy Schönbrunn in the summertime and on its last great Emperor, long-legged, Dundreary-whiskered Franz Josef...
...hand of an assassin. The War finally killed the old Emperor. The pension he had given Frau Schratt the Austrian Republic promptly canceled. But she still had plenty of assets: the neat villa, jewels, antiques. Her greatest asset was what she remembered of the scandal-riddled House of Habsburg but on that asset, despite the incessant wheedlings of publishers' agents, she has never drawn. Instead she mortgaged her villa. Last week at 78 she was still living in it, selling one by one her jewels and antiques to keep inviolate her royal recollections...
FLORIAN-Felix Salten-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). The career of a prize Austrian stallion parallels the last years of the Habsburg Empire. A sentimental but appealing story...