Word: habsburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the dreams of romantics, wiseacres in Austria paid little attention last week to talk of a Habsburg restoration. A political move in which they were more willing to believe was the possible establishment of a Regency for Austria on the model of Admiral Horthy's Regency in Hungary. First candidate for such a post is obviously Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr, descendant and namesake of the great general who saved Vienna from the Turks in 1683. When there was another little Cabinet shift in Vienna last week, a second candidate for Regent...
...Prince von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr. was last week offered the post of Minister without portfolio in the Dollfuss Cabinet. Two weeks before he had said: "Reports that I am aiming at the crown are entirely untrue. I will not be a competitor of the Habsburgs. Otto is the only possible Emperor." If Otto should be restored it would bring certain definite advantages to Austria. The minor squabblings of Heimwehr, Christian Socialists, and Dollfuss Front members would end once they had a common figure to rally round. There would be a new, possibly a more glamorous figure...
...realizes, 1 imagine, the strength of the forces gathering around this cockpit of the Powers." So from Vienna last week wrote Sir Philip Gibbs, a British journalist with such an imposing reputation that he does not hesitate to advise the British Government. In Prague three days later the Habsburg restoration talk was taken up by Czechoslovakia's eternal Foreign Minister, Eduard Benes. Said he: "The Habsburgs cannot be separated from their history, and although they may personally be agreeable, even their presence in Austria and Hungary as private residents would endanger the peace of Europe. Jugoslavia and Italy...
...other possible pretender to the Habsburg throne (but of Hungary only) is the Archduke Albrecht, great-grandson of the brother of Franz Josef's grandfather. His claims, remote though they seem, are based on the fact that since the Treaty of Trianon, Hungary is theoretically free to choose any King she wants, and both branches of his family have lived in Hungary for at least two generations. Unfortunately for the schemes of Albrecht's mother, the Archduchess Isabella, who died in 1931, Albrecht renounced his rights four years ago (TIME, June...
...Finally he got the Cortes to allow him 27,000 more Civil and Assault Guards and got a vote of con- fidence for his Cabinet, 148 to 24. To Alfonso Bourbon y Asturias, no longer King of Spain but still an Austrian Archduke. Duke of Burgundy and Count of Habsburg. all this was but a faint rumor. Last week he was deep in the Sudan, hunting lion and buffalo. He had a bad moment when a native police patrol mistook his party for Abyssinian bandits. Alfonso stopped their fire by shouting in English. Meanwhile in London his lawyers...