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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...
Last week there was naturally no announced program of how 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...
Cartoonist Billy De Beck never donned baggy trousers and a putty nose to exhibit himself as Barney Google. Cartoonist Fred Opper never publicly appeared in the Quixotic guise of Happy Hooligan. But last week Cartoonist Otto Soglow, elaborately garbed in the beard, crown and ermine of his Little King, made a coast-to-coast goodwill tour on a TWAirliner to celebrate the debut of his famed New Yorker comic strip in Puck, the 16-page funnypaper published weekly in Hearst-papers throughout...
Engaged. Archduke Otto, 21, Habsburg pretender to the Austrian throne; and Princess Maria, 19, youngest daughter of King Vittorio Emmanuele of Italy (see page...
Died. Count Josef Karolyi, 50, leader of Hungary's Legitimists who want Otto of Habsburg for King (see p. 24), brother of radical Count Michael: after long illness; in Budapest...