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EX-EMPRESS' ACTIYITY AGAINST HOHENZOLLERN S AND HITLER. RESTORATIOiN OF GERMANY. Vienna, July 21. The bitter hostility of one exiled royal house toward another, despite the proverbial comradeship in adversity, is revealed in the interesting statement in the "Sonn-und-Montages Zeitung" of an anonymous Austrian legitimist monarchist who has just returned from Steenaskerzeel. The statement declares that recent overtures of the House of Hchenzollern — believed to he connected with the hopes of a restoration in which both Hohenzollerns and Hapshurgs are indulging — toward the House of Hapsburg met with a sharp rebuff. The ex-Empress Zita declined to receive an emissary of the German ex-Crown Prince, who had the mortification while waiting in the village of Steenockerzeel of learning that an emissary of ex-Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria was received. This marked display of favour for the Catholic house of Wittelsbach as against the Protestant house of Hohenzollern was emphasised hy Zita's alleged pronouncement that she stood for "a grsater Germany but against a greater Prussia." To this courier from Prince Rupprecht, says the Austrian legitimist leader, the ex-Empress said: "In Berlin, Prussia and Germany are designe^ly confused." It is the task of Bavaria to cl'sar up this ancient error." Although during last nionth Bavarian and Hungarian emissaries were received together when no Austrian monarchists were present, the ex-Em-press, it is emphasised, pays close attention to Austrian developments, and has at the moment a prominent Vienna industrial leader as her guest. Zita plays a very active part in supervising and co-ordinating those legitimist ac~ tivities which are directed towards preparing the way for a restoration. In a letter to the Hungarian legitimists she urged close co-op>eration he- | tween Austria and Hungary and beI. tween all the Danube States in the interests of a possible restoration. She is strongly opposed to the whole Hitler movement, to which she attributes a Bolshevist character. The Austrian legitimist declares that it is quite untrue that Otto is playing an active part in politics. He confines himself to planting a black and yellow flag in the name of each village on his map which confers honorary citizenship on him,
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 335, 23 September 1932, Page 3
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352ROYAL FUED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 335, 23 September 1932, Page 3
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