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Both boys had been born subjects of Austria, but neither liked Habsburg rule. Rather than serve in the Austrian army, John Benes had emigrated to the U.S., where he became a cabinetmaker. His younger brother Eduard stayed behind to help build the new nation of Czechoslovakia...
Died. Count Antal Sigray, 68, longtime campaigner for the restoration of the Habsburg monarchy, wartime concentration camp prisoner of the Nazis; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Jailed briefly in 1921 after a Graustarkian attempt to restore Emperor Charles to the throne, the count preserved the opera bouffe flavor of the episode by challenging government leaders who had "slandered" him while he was in prison (no one accepted the challenge...
Last week, Vienna's police said that he had been arrested by Russian soldiers. Wilhelm Habsburg-Lothringen, would-be King of the Ukraine, was resting quietly in Wiener-Neustadt's Soviet internment camp. The Russians, it appeared, were taking no chances even with ghosts...
...Communist-sponsored Government White Paper last week implicated Tildy in "the conspiracy against Hungarian democracy." At the same time it accused the British of encouraging a Habsburg restoration. Tildy still denied any uneasiness; he was quietly fishing in Lake Balaton last week, and telling callers: "I will not resign, I never intended to resign, I never attempted to resign." In spite of these protestations, he was, in fact, trying to flee the country of which he was President...
Died. Princess Louise of Saxony, 76, daughter of the last Grand Duke of Tuscany, onetime Habsburg Archduchess, whose romantic misadventures were a worldwide scandal 45 years ago; in Brussels...