Word: habsburgs
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...trend had been beaten down through the centuries when the peninsula served as the cockpit of Guelph and Ghibelline, despot and noble, rival Spaniard, Frenchman and German. In Milan, in 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte had crowned himself with the iron crown of Lombardy. In Milan, in 1848, the Habsburg General Count Joseph Radetzky had smashed the people's barricades. But the day of Italy's Risorgimento (resurrection) came. In 1870 the poor, frugal, industrious country of Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour ceased to be a geographical expression, attained nationhood under Vittorio Emanuele II, Rè Galantuomo (the Honest King...
...first time that the thousand-year-old House of Savoy (rulers of Italy since 1861) had broken a contract. In 1915 Vittorio Emanuele had shifted Italy from its alliance with the Hohenzollern and the Habsburg into the Allied camp. Now perhaps he was trying to repeat the past, trying to assure the future for himself and his son, tall, fast-living Crown Prince Umberto...
...Otto of Habsburg's dream of marching into conquered Vienna at the head of an Austrian battalion in the U.S. Army has come...
Official reason for the disbanding: quarrels between the unit's nationals. Real reason: both the Army and State Department were sick of the political ruckus. As of last week, Otto of Habsburg, 30, unmarried, resident of the U.S. since 1940, registered with his Manhattan draft board by the imperial title, "Otto of Austria," was still awaiting induction...
Once before, in 1918, America reaped the fruit of victory: the menace of German arrogant military power, controlling Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, was removed and democratic ideals triumphed in the fall of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanov empires, in the liberation of nationalities, in social and political gains everywhere...