POLAND: Exiles' Prayer

Four child-Archdukes—Robert, Felix, Karl and Rudolph—donned small white surplices, swung fuming censers, and chanted a quavering treble litany, while there knelt in prayer before them the child-Archduchesses Charlotte and Elizabeth and the mother of these six children, Zita, onetime Austro-Hungarian Empress and Queen.

This somewhat elaborate and complicated family prayer was offered up at the exiled Empress's modest residence in Lequeitio, a Spanish fishing village (TIME, Jan. 24, 1927). The object of the prayer was, however, not in Lequeitio but at Luxembourg, capital...

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