Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna last week there was talk of only one thing, that Archduke Otto, 21-year-old exiled pretender to the Austrian Throne, was about to inherit a greater fortune than any other man of 1934. For a week Duke Maximilian von Hohenberg, the assassination of whose father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, set off the World War in 1914, had been conferring with onetime Chancellor Otto Ender about the restoration of Habsburg properties confiscated during revolution. Last week their plans were well under way. To Otto, as head of the house, will go Habsburg jewels and plate, Habsburg stockholdings, most of which...
...same control over Austria that she now has over Albania. Vociferously France's Louis Barthou roared protests. Britain refused to sign anything that might mean military intervention. The best that could be wangled was a joint statement by France, Britain, and Italy reaffirming their intention of preserving Austrian independence...
...nearly defunct Disarmament Conference presented last week by a Hungarian newspaper which was almost alone in printing the full text of the speech which poor, neglected "Uncle Arthur" seized this occasion to make. Another complete fiasco was the speech of assassinated Chancellor Dollfuss' successor, dry, circumloquacious Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. For almost an hour he enunciated such involved platitudes as "this is no time for retrospective discussion as to whether Austria was bound to become what she now is, but I must urge that she must be preserved as she now is. That and that only, is the fundamental...
...Archduke Otto proposes to attain the Throne on which the King of Italy's daughter hopes to sit with him. Vienna, pullulating with Socialist and Nazi intrigue, would scarcely vote him back. His strength is in rural Austria and in the Hitlerphobia of the Great Powers. Old-fashioned Austrian Legitimists are never tired of harking back to the great oath which Kaiser Karl VI made all his subjects swear in 1724, pledging themselves and their descendants through all eternity to the House of Habsburg. These Legitimists have a pretty plan that Austria's "loyal provinces" should declare...
Engaged. Archduke Otto, 21, Habsburg pretender to the Austrian throne; and Princess Maria, 19, youngest daughter of King Vittorio Emmanuele of Italy (see page...