Word: hartensteins
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...renounced their claims to the throne. A tall, white-chinned man of 71 with the Habsburg horse face, he stepped off the train from Switzerland at Vienna's West Station and looked into the faces of a notable company: the Minister of War. Prince Alois von Schonburg-Hartenstein (''Our venerated and beloved Field Marshal!"); the son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand whose assassination detonated the War; the heads of the great houses of Mens-dorff-Pouilly and Pallavicini ("Imperial Highness!"); and the new arrival's cousin, the Archduke Anton and his wife Princess Ileana of Rumania...
...titular head of the Heimwehr, descendant and namesake of the great general who saved Vienna from the Turks in 1683. When there was another little Cabinet shift in Vienna last week, a second candidate for Regent of Austria jumped into the public mind. Dauntless old Prince Alois von Schonburg-Hartenstein, 75, was advanced from Under Secretary to Minister of National Defense...
...leaders of the Nazi Party in Austria will expel any member who responds to Prince Schönburg-Hartenstein's appeal for old soldiers to come to the aid of the Dollfuss Government. We will sacrifice not a man and not a cartridge because every possible and conceivable outcome of this conflict will result against Germany and the German people. But we will be ready at any time to make any sacrifice for a German solution of the Austrian problem...