Word: habsburgs
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...obscure German nobleman named Rudolf of Habsburg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1273 when an assemblage at Aachen shouted "Fiat...
...Otto Habsburg, and not with a Fiat but a Mercedes...
Inconspicuous as it was, Otto's return brought a shrill outcry from the Austrian Socialist Party, which sponsored a three-hour strike by some 250,000 Austrian production and office workers, and then blamed "the unrest caused by Otto Habsburg's provocative entry." The Socialists have long talked darkly of the "threat" of a Habsburg restoration, though even the Habsburgs themselves are not expecting a royal comeback. Otto was exiled at the age of six. In the early years, his proud and persistent mother, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, tried every scheme to regain Habsburg honors...
According to his pedigree, the fellow is Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Galicia and Illyria, King of Jerusalem, Duke of Cracow, Lothringen, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Silesia, Modena and Parma. But Otto von Habsburg, 53, son of the last Austro-Hungarian monarch (Karl I), has long since given up building castles in the air. Several times he has renounced his pretensions to the nonexistent thrones, though never with enough conviction to satisfy the Austrian government, which refused him entry into his homeland. Now the government has relented. He may come back from Bavarian exile any time...
...Socialists, in turn, have publicly accused the People's Party of black schemes to permit the return of Otto Habsburg, pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and restore to him part of the family's nationalized fortunes. The Socialists have vehemently blocked Otto's reentry, to the vast relief of a great many Austrians who recall the empire with a vivid mixture of nostalgia and Angst. So powerful an issue is the long-dead monarchy that the campaign has even been enlivened by a Dusseldorf human-relations counselor, Dr. Theodor Rudolf Pachmann, who last month petitioned...