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last month, could scarcely expect such consideration as Wilhelm von Hohenzollern got. With Otto fled his dynamic mother, the former Empress Zita, five lesser Habsburgs...
...fitting eulogy of a glorious ruling House whose power is no more, comes Bertita Harding's Imperial Twilight, a stirring account of the lives of Karl and Zita of Hapsburg. Purposely avoiding more than a bare outline of the historical and political background, the author focuses almost her sole attention on the ill starred war-time rulers, struggling valiantly to hold together a tottering empire, whose collapse the outbreak of that first world conflagration rendered inevitable...
...made her a newspaperwoman. To her new career she brought the same mixture of romanticism and vitality that had made her a successful suffragette. She got the last interview with Hunger Striker Terence McSwiney before he struck out in Cork, Ireland. She got the only interview with Empress Zita in Budapest after the second Karlist putsch failed. She borrowed $500 from Sigmund Freud to go to Warsaw and covered the Pilsudski revolution in evening dress. She was almost shot in Bulgaria. In Vienna she established a salon of sorts and entertained politicians, refugees, psychoanalysts, novelists, musicians and spies. In Budapest...
...Archduke "this comic boy." Nazi Administrator Josef Bürckel dubbed him "Otto the Last." The Nazi police issued a warrant for his arrest for high treason should "His Majesty" ever be caught in Reich territory. Otto remained in Belgium, where he has lived with his mother, onetime Empress Zita, for the last nine years. Last week in Paris, after Führer Hitler had seized several more big slices of the Pretender's "empire" (Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia), Archduke Otto was still more indignant. Said "His Most Apostolic Majesty": "I condemn with the utmost energy the violence with which...
...requetes of Navarre and Old Castile, reactionary monarchists, who fight in red boinas (berets) and would like to bring back to Spain the little known Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, a onetime Belgian artillery captain whose sister is ex-Empress Zita of Austria...