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...royal honors to the sovereigns of Italy, who behaved in every way as if their hostess were still an Em press. Getting down to brass tacks with royal directness, they proceeded to dicker, with Princess Maria sitting in, over whether Maria should marry Zita's handsome eldest son, Archduke Otto, the Austro-Hungarian Pretender...
Only last year Il Popolo d' Italia, personal newsorgan of Benito Mussolini, scoffed at Otto as "a thick-headed young Habsburg who could not possibly under stand Fascism." But that was last year. Since then Otto has applied himself to a diligent study of Il Duce's "Corporative State," become glib in its specialized argot. Also the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss reminded Il Duce of the advantage of a Crown held by such a prolific dynasty as the Habsburgs...
Zita has eight healthy offspring, five of them boys. They range from Otto. 21, down through Adelaide, Robert. Felix, Karl, Rudolf and Charlotte to Elizabeth, 12 (see cut}. Lest the negotiations break down and Otto suffer a rebuff, Zita sent him recently to Scandinavia where he was hunting elk as the guest of Sweden's toothy old King Gustaf...
...dickering last week Zita was seconded by her brother Felix. Prince Consort of the reigning Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, who was also present. The six royalties finally agreed that the engagement of Maria and Otto should be made known as a fact but not published for the present in King Vittorio Emmanuele's Royal Gazette. Conceivably the wedding may turn upon whether Archduke Otto regains Austria's Imperial Throne or at least the Hungarian Royal Throne. When the engagement had been made de facto last week Zita and Princess Maria embraced, and Zita's seven younger offspring were presented...
...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...