Word: habsburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Archduke Otto von Habsburg-Lothringen, throne pretender and Crown Prince of Austria whose incipient coronation will mean a new era of peace to Europe...
...crushed, underground reports from Germany proper suggested some Nazi nervousness lest a revolution or coup d'etat be attempted by Germans to secure a new Government-possibly monarchist-with which Great Britain and France would be willing to make a quick peace on favorable terms. Scions of the Habsburg and Metternich houses were mentioned as the object of active German intrigue and Adolf Hitler was said to have summoned former German Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm for a conference at the Chancellery which became highly emotional...
...attorney, King's Counsel Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, opened cautiously by tracing events back twelve years to his client's first meeting with Lord Rothermere. The Viscount, he declared, "told the Princess in 1927 that he had decided to work for the restoration of the Hohenzollern and Habsburg dynasties. He wanted to be a modern Warwick-the-King-Maker and work on the European rather than the English field...
Died. Dr. Kálmán Darányi de Pusztaszentgyörgy és Tetétlen, 53, onetime (1936-38) Premier of Hungary; after long illness; in Budapest. A pro-Habsburg monarchist, K࣋mán Darányi squelched a Nazi putsch in 1937, lost prestige when he swallowed Naziism after Germany swallowed Austria...
...Archduke Robert, 24, second son of the late Austrian Kaiser Karl, was sent from Belgium to Paris by his brother Archduke Otto, 26, the Habsburg Pretender, with an offer to recruit a full division of Austrian refugees and send them to fight on the Western Front if Britain and France will announce as one of their war aims "restoration of Austria as an inde pendent State." Already in France with a similar proposal was Austria's onetime Heimwehr troop leader and Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime friend of Adolf Hitler, who recently ordered confiscated...