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...politics. A prince of the church, Richelieu revived and carried through the domestic and foreign policies of Protestant Henri IV ("Paris is worth a Mass!"). In league with the greatest living Protestant king, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Catholic Richelieu broke the power of the greatest Catholic state in Europe-Habsburg Spain...
Third Great Battle. Against Weygand who in the desperate hour walked with spring in his step, Germany sneered in an official statement that it was a commentary on French democracy that for a savior it had to turn to "the illegitimate issue of a Habsburg, namely, of that Emperor of Mexico, Maximilian, who met such an adventurous...
...Quick on her heels tumbled Otto von Habsburg ("Otto the Last"), who, after his anti-Nazi pronouncements...
...return to Paris after a six-week "study tour" of American democracy, Archduke Otto, Habsburg pretender to the throne of Austria, was asked what he thought of the U. S. Presidential campaign. Observed Otto: "No petty wrangling, and no personal rivalries. The national interest dominates...
Last week, at 84, the Gracious Lady quietly died. With her, since she never wrote a line of memoirs, she took thousands of secrets, some glorious, some pathetic, some just human, of the fallen House of Habsburg...