Evening star., 1927-04-24
HAPSBURG WOMAN
TURNS SOCIALIST.
Granddaughter CT Franz
Josef Says Only They
Have Helped Sex.
By Radio TO The Star.
by MAMMALIAN HARDEN.

BERLIN. April 23.-Austria elects
q new parliament; and above the
battle cries of Papists and Monarch
lists Clericals and Socialist Demo
Gratis. one hears suddenly the high
soprano cry only the Socialists have
done ANYTHING for us women. and
therefore women should vote only Tor
them"
Austria holds its breath for a mo-
ment. For the summons came from
the lips of q genuine archduchess,
granddaughter of Franz Joseph
kaiser of Austria.
Franz Joseph's son, Crown Prince
T,udolf husband of Princess Step
hanie of Belgium, and father OF the
S,,-aar.old archduchess Elizabeth
Maria was found with a shattered
sl,,,lI I'm he'd beside his dead Hungarian
,,1istrpss in a hunting lodge at Mayer
ling. Stephanie later married a Mag
VAR magnate and her daughter, Eliza'
beth. married Prince Otto zu Wlndls'
Chrraetz. This marriage never was
happy one, but Franz Josephs reso-
lute will prevented any attempt 10
have the Pope dissolve IT.
Saw Collapse of Monarchy.
Ten wears ago Elizabeth saw for
the last time the pomp which ancient
Snanish ceremonial prescribed Tor
rannarchists of the house q Haps-
h,,rC In a line of arChduchesses she
marched in a solemn procession y alch
conducted her cousin, Kaiser Carr 70
10 the place where he held his flrst
and last address from the throne. Oh'
der a haldachin of ostrich feathers
and purple and gold stuffs sat kiser
Carl. with a green plumed headdress
on his blond head, and read in a low
voice his promise to rule his land IN
the spirit of true democracy.
Too late. The war storm dlsin'
4egrated the throne. scattered MS
glowing following and brought mer-
Ciful death to the lone weakhng.
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand, Franz
Josef. Carl-Elizabeth saw the end or
these four. who had been called to as
sumo the monarch's crown. She saw
the swift collapse of the rotted mon
archy and the salvation of the land,
now shrunk into a small German
state, through the patient industry OIL
the laboring masses.
And now she can throw off at last
the bonds of marriage that long since
have acome a mockery, and can be-
come engaged to a Socialist schooi
teacher, And so this 44-year-old Haps-
burger loudly calls to the voters TO
elect the candidates Of the radical re-
publican parties which gave the fran
Chise to women and protecuon TO the
children of the proletariat.
Aid to BoIsIlevists.
What a contrast and a sensation
for the moviesi And what an effective
aid TO the new maneuver or the Bol-
shevists, who, disappointed by the
spiritual tempo and economic temper
arure of China, would like TO return
10 the arena of European politics be-
fore the opposition of the Left parties
in France and Germany to an under
standing with Mussolini makes II pos
sfhle for the English again TO become
masters of the continent through re-
newaI of the entente cordiale.
The treaty with Turkey, the friend
sEip agreement with Afghanistan, the
secret alliance with Albania's revolu-
tionary emigrants, the promise OF
higher payments to French creditors,
the settlement of the quarrel with
Switzerland, which prevented the
soyiets from gaining Geneva as
sounding board for their agitation
these blank shots mark the stages Of
the retreat.
Following Italy's triumph over
Stain and Trotsky it was said in Rus
eia, 1--WE are gradually becoming the
least interesting of all great coun-
tries That time is past. The soviet
union plans TO become most active
again.
And the same gloriously defeated
ones. who spoke the resigned phrase,
now greet with an ironical wink their
archduchess comrade, who waves the
red flag on the Danube over the ruins
Of the Hapsburgs' glory.
(Copyright 1927