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...talk, a long distance call was put through by Prince Paul to Prague. At the other end of the wire Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes hotly insisted that Rumania and Yugoslavia, which with Czechoslovakia comprise the "Little Entente." should not waver in their traditional resistance to a Habsburg Restoration...
...momentous step which they felt would please departed Dollfuss. This step was to ask Austria's hand-picked and subservient State Council to restore over 50,000,000 schillings ($9,510,000) worth of worldly goods to Archduke Otto, the young Austrian pretender who heads the House of Habsburg, sometime Holy Roman Emperors...
...Count Coreth had meant by "the Austrian people" the proletariat rather than the devout peasantry no assertion could have been more monstrous. In 1919 as an act of Marxist right and mass justice the Imperial and Royal House of Habsburg?they of the curling ''Habsburg lip" ?were stripped of their lands and property down to the very nightgown of fugitive Empress Zita. Spurned by a Socialist Austrian Government, which exercised mercy only in saving the Habsburgs from being butchered as the Romanovs were butchered, Little Otto's uninspiring father, Kaiser Karl, was allowed to slip away...
...visit of Austria's No. 1 Fascist Prince Ernest Rüdiger von Starhemberg, however, last week furnished Mussolini with an opportunity to advertise his opinion that the only possible way to keep Austria from union with Germany is to restore a Habsburg King of Austria...
...Vienna it was like old times. Austrian troops, goose-stepping down the Ringstrasse and past the Imperial Palace saluted a towering old field marshal beside whom Chancellor Schuschnigg and President Miklas of the Austrian Republic seemed dwarfed to insignificance Der Feldmarschall was His Imperial and Royal Highness Eugen von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria and cousin of Franz Josef. Among the field pieces which clattered Eugen, many were seen to exceed the 5.5 inch calibre to which Austria is limited by the Treaty of St. Germain. The big surprise to most Austrians, who thought they possessed no treaty-banned battle planes...