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...heyday the Emperor Franz Josef liked to do things on schedule. At 4:30 in the morning three times a week, he arose, put on a well-cut uniform and yards of braid, walked across the gardens of Schonbrunn, slipped out through a secret gate, and presented himself at a little yellow cottage at Gloriette Road No. 9. There he was greeted by the beautiful Katharina Schratt, "Käthi" to His Majesty. Dressed in full court costume, she would bow low, say "Good morning, Colonel," and wave him in. By 6:30 sharp the two were seated...
...first issue of London's Times appeared.) So great was the prestige of the Zeitung that in 1805 the Emperor Franz II made it an official Government organ. But it remained the property of Schönwetter's successors until 1857. That year the young Emperor Franz Josef took it over...
...partisan record of events in Austria, a solemn register of Europe's wars and quarrels. The Zeitung saw the rise and fall of Napoleon, the splendor and decline of the Hohenzollerns. It published the official texts of all Austrian treaties, declarations, laws and constitutions. Franz Josef died in 1916; two years later the Imperial eagle on the Zeitung's, masthead was replaced by the single-headed eagle of the Republic...
When Foreign Minister Josef Beck and other leaders of a beaten Poland fled from Warsaw last September, they left in a hurry. According to the German Foreign Office, they left behind them some very interesting documents. Last week the Germans published these documents-day after Sumner Welles, just back from Europe, made his undivulged report to the President...
...made him learn many tongues: Hungarian, German, French, English, Spanish, Basque, Croatian, Czech, and "300 words of Finnish." When Otto was ready for a university, his whole family moved to Belgium so he could attend Louvain. Otto learned to live with the austerity of his great granduncle Franz Josef-in a two-room suite like Franz Josef's at Schönbrunn, with books, a table, chairs, an iron bed, a washstand. He drove to his studies in a second-hand car. When it broke down he gladly crawled under to fix it, but because royalty could never appear...