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...questionable political activities, the thought that he was helping to spread the gospel of Christ must often have been a source of strength and consolation. True, his enemies in Spain and Austria and at the Roman Curia accused him of using his missionaries as French agents and anti-Habsburg fifth columnists. And, alas, the charge was not entirely baseless...
Thus last week the free Swiss acted out the ceremony that gave them their freedom. Six hundred and fifty years before, representatives of the three "forest cantons" of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden had gathered in the same glade to light a fire symbolizing their confederation against the house of Habsburg. To celebrate their independence day the Swiss every year build huge leaping bonfires instead of shooting off fireworks...
Archduke Otto of Austria was sued for an accounting of Habsburg family funds by his hard-up fifth cousin, Archduke Leopold. >> "Death Valley" Scotty was ordered to turn over 22½% of his mining claims to his old friend and banker, Julian Gerard; but the judge doubted any gold would be found, and did not award Gerard any interest in his protégé's three-million-dollar desert castle. >> Historian Harry Elmer Barnes was dropped as a lecturer by Eastern Washington College of Education (Cheney, Wash.) because "during his early years Dr. Barnes was associated with certain...
Lecturing his way across the Deep South, suave, wavy-haired Archduke Otto von Habsburg passed a night at Meridian, Miss.'s Lamar Hotel. After he left next day the management got a frantic letter from his secretary. Count von Degenfeld: would they please forward pronto to Austin, Tex. a nightshirt-snowy broadcloth and with Habsburg crest on the pocket-which His Royal Highness had left behind...
...first half of the book, that Josephson reserves his more withering disapproval. Irked by T. R.'s nationalism and strong foreign policy, unable to call him either politico or robber baron, Josephson calls him an aristocratic bureaucrat, backs it up by statements of aristocrats at the Habsburg court...