Word: habsburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hostile to a Habsburg restoration in Hungary!" abruptly announced Prime Minister Juliu Maniu of Rumania last week. Meanwhile the Prime Minister of Hungary, brusque Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen was packing up for a visit to London, but found time to dictate a retort published by the Budapest Pesti Hirlap in which he said: ''All talk about a personal union of Hungary with Rumania under the crown of King Carol II is nonsense-utter nonsense...
Plainly the two statesmen were on each other's nerves. The Count's visit to England is reputedly to convince James Ramsay MacDonald that the legitimate heir to the throne of Hungary, famed Archduke Otto ("Little Otto") of Habsburg must and should be restored when he reaches his majority next...
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...
...Poor Sinner." The Habsburg thus buried with traditional Catholic rites for Royalty (similar rites were observed for the King of Spain's mother [TIME, Feb. 18, 1929]) may or may not have been a sinner but he died desperately poor. The expensive pageant in his honor was financed by an astute woman: Zita, widow of ill-starred Emperor Karl, mother of famed "Little Otto" who pretends to both the Imperial Austrian and the Royal Hungarian thrones (TIME...
...opinion of Zita it is about time that her Otto received proper publicity in Vienna, for he reaches his majority next November. She therefore staged the first full-dress Habsburg funeral in Vienna since the War. Pope Pius XI is supposed to favor the candidacies of Otto, which would account for the presence of beak-nosed, bald-headed former Prime Minister Seipel, a Monsignor. Quite unimportant was the presence of the dead man's father, Archduke Leopold Salvator von Habsburg who recently published his piquant autobiography: From Archduke to Grocer (TIME...