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Marie-Adélaïde refused the hand of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, became an unhappy wanderer. She lived in Switzerland, then Italy, almost penniless. In 1920 she entered a Carmelite convent as a novice, but did not take to a life of contemplation. She joined the Little Sisters of the Poor, gave that up, went to Munich to study medicine. In 1924 she died at Hohenburg, a broken old woman...
Plain Princess. Under the Grand Duchess Charlotte and her husband, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (Xavier's younger brother), Luxembourg prospered again, until at the outbreak of World War II it was a thriving little country of rich peasants, rich merchants, rich industrialists. It banks for much of Europe, is headquarters of Orbed, big European steel cartel, ranks as tenth steel-producing country of the world. It manufactures also leather and beer. Were it not for its fear of both friends and foes-which can hardly be told apart-Luxembourg would be a perfect Ruritania...
...days after the death in 1922 of his father-Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs-little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius Ignaz, known to the world by his third name, lay ill of a fever in the tiny, damp-walled, smoky house of exile in Madeira to which the family had been banished. He called for his "Treasure Box"-a stationery case in which he kept pictures of his family, pressed Hungarian flowers, a lump of his native soil, a silver coin his father had given...
...Foreign Minister Count Ciano of Italy (TIME, Dec. 25), which was cut to ribbons by Premier Edouard Daladier's press censorship but reached French radio listeners in broadcasts from Italy, Germany and even America in an assortment of languages which of course included French. Up jumped Rightist Deputy Xavier Vallat to agree for once with Leftist Blum, gave the Chamber other examples...
Noteworthy it was that the Deputies made a big distinction between Daladier the Premier and Daladier the War Minister. Only praise was found for M. Daladier's conduct of the war. Party spokesmen from Socialist Léon Blum to Royalist Xavier Vallat applauded the War Minister's report of France's part in the conflict, cheered when he warned that should the "enemy Führer" order the bombing of French cities (as has recently been threatened by the German radio), the French "will return blow for blow...