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...first leg of their march to build an Italian nation. All his life Orlando lived and labored as an Italian Nationalist, long after his kind of nationalism-and Orlando himself-had become an anachronism. He took over as Premier on that bleak October day in 1917 when the Austro-German armies burst through the Alps at Caporetto. The fact that Italy recovered and ended up on the winning side in 1918 earned for Orlando the title, "Premier of Victory." He never forgot...
Married. Archduke Felix of Habsburg, 36, third son of Emperor Charles I and Empress Zita, last rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire; and German Princess Anna Eugenie of Arenberg, 27; in 1) a civil ceremony, and 2) a Roman Catholic ceremony witnessed by the ex-Empress Zita, Archduke Otto, pretender to the throne, and 200 of Europe's rich and royal; in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France...
Marie Kalnoky is well prepared for the job. At 56, with 30 years of experience in her steady hands, she is one of the top experts in her field. Her father, a colonel of Austro-Hungarian dragoons, started his children off early in art. Often, after dinner, she remembers, "he would put a pot of flowers or something on the table and we children would all copy it." But Marie Francisca never particularly tried to be a painter. "There were enough finished paintings," she says crisply. "People preferred to have their old paintings restored...
...outpost, Vienna is hopeless. The U.S. has about 1,500 troops here, Great Britain about a 1,000, and France about the same. The Russians undoubtedly have more than the combined Western total in the city alone, to say nothing of what is in the rest of of the Austro-Russian zone and in Czechoslovakia 25 miles away...
Married. Otto of Habsburg, 38, pretender to the throne of the pre-World War I Austro-Hungarian empire; and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen-Hildburg-hausen, 26; in Nancy, France (see INTERNATIONAL...