Otto's Conviction

When Adolf Hitler marched into Austria year ago "His Most Apostolic Majesty" Otto von Habsburg, 26-year-old pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne, entered objections. Blustering Field Marshal Hermann Goring answered the objections by calling the Archduke "this comic boy." Nazi Administrator Josef Buerckel dubbed him "Otto the Last." The Nazi police issued a warrant for his arrest for high treason should "His Majesty" ever be caught in Reich territory. Otto remained in Belgium, where he has lived with his mother, onetime Empress Zita, for the last nine years. Last week in Paris, after Fuehrer Hitler had seized several more big slices of the Pretender's "empire" (Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia), Archduke Otto was still more indignant. Said "His Most Apostolic Majesty": "I condemn with the utmost energy the violence with which Germany has subjugated Bohemia and Moravia. I condemn also the military occupation of Slovakia by a German Army. . . . More than ever I have the firm conviction that we are nearing the inevitable end of the National Socialist regime."

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