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...these last talismanic words the great, rusty doors of the crypt groaned open to receive a Royal corpse for the first time since they closed in 1916 on the body of Franz Josef, Austrian Emperor, King of Hungary, In the presence of a brilliant assemblage, including the Ministers of Spain and France, former Austrian Prime Minister Ignaz Seipel and a host of demoted nobility, the coffin entered the crypt. It was draped with the colors of Imperial Austria. On a yellow field the black, two-headed eagle of the Habsburgs screamed again...
...quite the most resolute and grim of Hungarian statesmen, Julius Ritter Gömbös von Jákfa, Minister of War. Soon after his appointment (TIME, Oct. 21), he restored the practice of flogging Hungarian soldiers for the slightest infraction, an historic Habsburg barbarity abolished in 1855 by Franz Josef. Tooth and nail War Minister Combos has fought the restoration of Karl's son, famed "Little Otto." Several times the election of Isabella's Albrecht as King of Hungary has seemed almost a sure thing. But suddenly, fortnight ago, Albrecht sought out "Little Otto" in Belgium, knelt before him, acknowledged...
...days after Albrecht acclaimed Otto. Wily ex-Empress Zita, Otto's mother, saw in the death a chance to bring all remaining Habsburgs under her son's banner. Magnificently she ordered a royal funeral for the pauper, had him interred next to the bones of Emperor Franz Josef and for the first time in more than a decade Vienna saw the yellow and black flag of the Habsburgs on public view...
...front cover) A taciturnity without beginning, without end, shrouds the purpose and achievements of Josef Vissarionovitch Dzhugashvili, Dictator of Russia, called Stalin (pronounced Stahl-yn and meaning "Steel...
Stalin and Friends. Among potent U. S. business friends of Josef Vissarionovitch Dzhugashvili...