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...attack on the inaccuracy of U. S. Indian information is directed at two books, three magazines and a pamphlet issued by the India Independence League of America. The books, which he describes as having "more than any others influenced American thought about India," are Eminent Asians by Josef Washington ("Upton Close") Hall, and India in Bondage by Dr. Jabez Sunderland.* The magazines: The New Republic, Fleet's Review (described as "a 'tabloid' monthly read by most American business men"†), and TIME...
Last week the Socialist government of Vienna, Franz Josef's home, negatively celebrated his anniversary by decreeing that a cinema, specially produced for the occasion under the title The Emperor Franz Josef as Ruler and Man, was improper fare for Austrians under 16 years of age and "calculated to mislead the youth of the country." Austrian royalists had tried to arouse some enthusiasm for Der Alte Kaiser fortnight ago during bourgeois Vienna's enthusiastic celebration of the 125th anniversary of the introduction of the Wienerwurst, by broadcasting the fact that Franz Josef's breakfast was almost invariably a pair...
Just 100 years ago last week was born that saddest of monarchs, Franz Josef I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary. He reigned 68 years. When he mounted the throne Austria was one of the greatest, most powerful countries in the world. When he left it Austria was on the verge of ruin. His brother was executed, his wife and his nephew were assassinated, his only son had committed suicide. Said Emperor Franz in 1866 to the citizens of Frankfort: "I have an unlucky hand...
...Captain Schonta, Wartime Austrian naval commander, a sizeable delegation of Austrian royalists traveled to the ancient Benedictine monastery of Tihany, Hungary, to dedicate there a new group of the 14 stations of the cross in memory of ex-Emperor Karl, Franz Josef's grandnephew and successor, who was arrested in Tihany Abbey in 1921 after his second unsuccessful attempt to regain the throne...
...Habsburg archdukes, Josef and Josef Franz, were present. So was Count Kuno Klebelsberg, Minister of Education and a deputation from the Hungarian Parliament...