Word: zita
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...example, not long ago Manhattan journals printed authoritatively that Germany had ceased passive resistance in the Ruhr. Actually no such thing had occurred and did not occur until a fortnight later. Another journal recently received a despatch from its foreign correspondent to the effect that Queen Zita was living near Vienna. The truth was that she had not budged from Spain...
...parish church of the Spanish fishing village of Lequeito, near where the exiled ex-Empress of Austria-Hungary lives, the children of the unfortunate Emperor Karl (who died at Madeira, April 1,1922) and Empress Zita, were confirmed...
...order of ex-Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary, Monarchists attended the 25th anniversary of the assassination of the late Empress Elizabeth, * celebrated in the Capueiner Church in Vienna. During the ceremony a detective arrested Count Hoying, President of the Austrian State (Monarchist) Party, charging him with attempting to kill Eckartsau, Executor of ex-Emperor Karl's estates. Count Hoying denied the charge, characterizing it as an attempt at political revenge. He admitted, however, that he had charged Eckartsau with "wilfully sabotaging" settlement of the Habsburg estates. Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, became the consort...
...Zita herself is of Italian blood, being a member of the Ducal House of Tuscany. The Florentine diamond, manuscripts from the Modena Library, and other objects were transported from Tuscany to Vienna in the 18th Century. It is on this ground that the Italian Government claims them...
According to the Reparations Commission, the Empress Zita has every right to dispose of the precious stones in any way she sees...