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When Austria gets its independence, neighboring Hungary-once linked with Austria in the great Habsburg empire, but for the past 16 years a prisoner of various kinds of totalitarianism-will again have a 150-mile border with the free world...
Died. Eugen von Habsburg, 91, Archduke of Austria, distant cousin of the late Emperor Franz Josef, commander in chief of Austrian forces on the Italian front in World War I, grand master of the Order of German Knights; of pneumonia; in Merano, Italy. In 1918 Archduke Eugen was exiled from the Austrian republic for failure to renounce his claims to the throne, was invited back by Chancellor Dollfuss in 1934 as a concession to Vienna's imperial sentimentalism...
Born. To Archduke Otto von Habsburg, 42, peripatetic pretender to the Austrian throne, and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, 29: twin girls, their second and third daughters; in Würzburg, Germany. Names: Monika, Michaela. Weights...
...birthplace in the Tirol made him first an Austrian, then (by the border rearranging at Versailles) an Italian. But first and last he was a European. As an Austrian during the Habsburg decline, he was an M.P. in the Austrian Parliament, an editor, a labor organizer. As an Italian, he was one of the founders of Italy's dominant Christian Democratic Party, and an enemy of Fascism. In 1926 Mussolini clapped him into Rome's infamous Queen of Heaven prison on the banks of the Tiber, where he languished for a year and a half until the Holy...
Died. Prince Ernest von Hohenberg, 49, younger son of Austria's Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo (1914) touched off World War I; of a heart ailment; in Graz, Austria. No friend of Hitler, Prince Ernest once smashed an illuminated swastika sign with his umbrella in Vienna, spent the next five years (1938-43) in a German concentration camp...