Word: wittlesbach
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...sudden, national emergency, such as the death of 85-year-old Paul von Hindenburg. They would then push forward "as a stabilizing influence" a Hohenzollern? not as Kaiser but as "German Regent." In Bavaria, where monarchist heads are hottest, the populace already hail 63-year-old Rupprecht of Wittlesbach as "Your Majesty'' and will certainly insist that he be made Regent of BaVaria if a Hohenzollern becomes German Regent. Rupprecht, a good fellow despite his stern exterior, used to joke at continued Bavarian loyalty to himself when the Republic was first proclaimed. Cheered to the echo at Munich, he shouted...
...German Republic filed protests last week against President Paul von Hindenburg's decree lifting the ban on Adolf Hitler's brown-shirted "Storm Troops" (TIME, June 27). In Munich, hot-headed Bavarians talked of remaking their Free State into a Bavarian Monarchy, restoring the House of Wittlesbach. Deposed Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria naturally tried to hasten the popular ferment, stopped just short of high treason to the German Republic...
Last week "Rightful King" Rupprecht, a Wittlesbach not descended in the "mad" line, must have known not only that the demonstrations in his favor can scarcely culminate in setting him on his father's throne, but also that the demonstrations might never have occurred had not the onetime Wittlesbachs been kings so unforgettably picturesque...
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