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Married. Archduchess Agnes Christine of Habsburg, 20, great-granddaughter of Austria's late Emperor Franz Josef; and Prince Karl Alfred, 38, brother of Franz Josef II, reigning prince of Liechtenstein; in Castle Persenbeug, Austria...
...Some of the world's most attractive stamps are issued by governments with one eye cocked at the stamp collector's dollar. Among them: Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Monaco. Liechtenstein derives 25% of its total revenue from stamp sales...
Died. Princess Elsa of Liechtenstein, 72, widow of the late Franz I, onetime ruler of the postage-stamp principality nestled between Austria and Switzerland; of a heart attack; at Lake Vitznau, Switzerland. Granddaughter of a wealthy Viennese banker, Elsa de Guttmann secretly married Franz in 1921 (she was Jewish; he a Roman Catholic). When the 76-year-old Prince succeeded to the throne in 1929, the couple went through a public ceremony. After the Austrian Anschluss, Franz began to feel Nazi pressure because of his non-Aryan wife, quietly abdicated because he was getting...
Unmarked by war save for a barbed-wire fence along its eastern frontier to keep war criminals out, the peewee principality of Liechtenstein (area 65 sq. mi., pop. 11,500) last week coasted calmly into the problems of peace. No invader had threatened its soil or sovereignty, but new ideas had spilled over from neighboring Italy, Austria, Switzerland...
Born. To Prince Franz Josef II, 38, ruler of the tiny (65 sq. mi.), neutral Principality of Liechtenstein; and Princess Georgine, 23, blond, onetime Austrian countess; their first child, a son; in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Name: Johannes Adam Pius. Godfather: Pope Pius...