Word: karle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Predecessor of Karl Marx and first expositor of the "volonte generale" his ideas have permeated all utopian theories of communistic society, his eloquence and apparent cogency have always carried a multitude with it, if only for a time. Inspired by the inherent goodness of all men and convinced of their possession of certain inalienable natural rights, a theory long since discarded by political thinkers, he postulated a theory of social contract, historically null and logically full of gaping flaws, but yet inspiring in its fervent trust and faith in the basic goodness of all mankind. A visionary and idealist...
Water colours and oils by Karl Zerbe comprise the opening exhibition of the season at the Germanic Museum. Zerbe, a Munich painter, is one of the most talented of the younger artists in Germany and his work is to be seen in almost all of the chief museums of his native land. Although living in Cambridge at the present time, his work is little known in America and an exhibition in New York last spring was the first showing of his paintings in this country...
Devout Catholics, the King, Queen and Princess were greeted by that blackest of blacks, Zita, widow of His Apostolic Majesty the late Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary who reigned for two years as successor to Franz Josef, died deposed and broken-hearted at Funchal, Madeira. Last week Zita's well-trained Habsburg retainers did meticulous royal honors to the sovereigns of Italy, who behaved in every way as if their hostess were still an Em press. Getting down to brass tacks with royal directness, they proceeded to dicker, with Princess Maria sitting in, over whether Maria should marry Zita...
Zita has eight healthy offspring, five of them boys. They range from Otto. 21, down through Adelaide, Robert. Felix, Karl, Rudolf and Charlotte to Elizabeth, 12 (see cut}. Lest the negotiations break down and Otto suffer a rebuff, Zita sent him recently to Scandinavia where he was hunting elk as the guest of Sweden's toothy old King Gustaf...
...daughter hopes to sit with him. Vienna, pullulating with Socialist and Nazi intrigue, would scarcely vote him back. His strength is in rural Austria and in the Hitlerphobia of the Great Powers. Old-fashioned Austrian Legitimists are never tired of harking back to the great oath which Kaiser Karl VI made all his subjects swear in 1724, pledging themselves and their descendants through all eternity to the House of Habsburg. These Legitimists have a pretty plan that Austria's "loyal provinces" should declare one by one that they are bound to Otto in virtue of the great oath. More likely...