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Such revelations together with rumors that Premier Bethlen will now try to give a push to a putsch which would raise up the young Prince Otto of Hapsburg as King of Hungary, provided last week one of the major political sensations of the decade since the World...
Super-scareheads frightened many citizens of Budapest: "CHIEF OF POLICE NADOSSY AND PRINCE WINDISCH-GRAETZ TEARFULLY CONFESS TO COUNTERFEITING 30,000,000,000 FRENCH FRANCS! Possible Fascist Putsch to Set up Archduke Albrecht of Hapsburg as Kaiser of Hungary Nipped by French Detectives! Premier Count Stephen Bethlen Believed Well Pleased at Developments, Which May Discredit His Rival, the Regent of Hungary, Nicholas Horthy...
...Prince is "a descendant of the Holy Roman Emperors," a Hapsburg, and a grandson of Feldmarschall Alfred Windisch-Graetz who put down the Kossuth revolution of 1848. Once he was the intimate adviser of the ill-fated Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary (1915-1918), and he is the present owner of the famed Eleventh Century castle at Saros-Patak. He is well known as "the most notorious titled gambler in Budapest," and is an avowed Fascist champion of the Archduke Albrecht as King of Hungary. The French detectives ferreted into his affairs excitedly...
However mixed the metaphor, Blasco Ibanez, the Spanish novelist, has taken arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing has not ended them. That royal monstrosity, the Hapsburg chin, apparently terrifies him not a bit: on the contrary, it incites him to retaliate with a jaw all his own. He sits tight in his French villa at Mentone and hurls investive against the border at the Spanish monarch...
...teeth champing like castanets, he declares grandiloquently that only King Alphonso or Primo de Rivera may match rapiers with him. What could be more audacious than a novelist laying aside a vitriolic pen to challenge a crowned head of Europe? It is not likely that the pride of a Hapsburg-Bourbon will brook such an affront. Yet, even in this case, Ibanez has the long odds. He has looked over the King's record as a duelist and finds it poor. Besides, and the truth of this charge particularly infuriates the royalists, the King's manner of living...