Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirited suit for divorce last week, grizzled old General Josef Karel, once aide-de-camp to Emperor Franz Josef, denounced his wife for something new in the annals of Austrian jurisprudence: political infidelity...
...save old General Karel's pension and set an example to Naziphile wives, the Court promptly granted his petition for divorce, set an Austrian precedent...
...Vienna there was little or no sensation. Successive Austrian Governments have been headed for years and years by devout Roman Catholics who in their quiet way have done several things to foster the return of His Apostolic Majesty. Under Chancellor Dollfuss the word "republic"' was stricken from Austria's Constitution. So was the phrase "the country's laws emanate from the people." The Constitution now reads "the country's laws emanate from God" and the House of Habsburg has always ruled "by the grace...
Another change was to restore in Austria the Habsburg Imperial anthem and uniforms. Today when in full dress an officer in the army of Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas can barely be distinguished from an officer of Kaiser Franz Josef. When Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria recently conferred with Premier Mussolini he vowed afterward that "even the name Habsburg was not mentioned." but no Italian doubted last week that Il Duce had merely found it more convenient to sav "Otto...
Under the post-War treaties France and her allies of the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia) have held out valiantly against a Habsburg restoration. Last week France was believed to favor Otto as an Austrian bulwark against Hitlerism, but the Little Entente was fearful, furious and suspicious. Man of peace though he has always been, Dr. Eduard Benes, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, has hinted that his country would "mobilize" should Otto be restored. No less restive are Kings Carol of Rumania and Alexander of Jugoslavia. The reason is simple: all three Little Entente countries contain huge slices...