Large crowd gathers for Otto

November 3, 1935

More than 7,000 war veterans, many of them "blind and crippled." gathered in Heroes square today to cheer "in the name of Archduke Otto."
The leader of the group, the Prince of Schönberg-Hartenstein, who once served as a field marshal in the Austrian army, declared: "We demand that Otto be brought back immediately to occupy the Austrian throne," reported the Associated Press.
Today's gathering "was regarded as important" because many distinguished persons "who participated in it." Much of the "older aristocracy were presented," and in the crowd "were generals and admirals, who served, suffered and lost, under the old empire."
Many were deeply moved by "references to the vanquished glory of the Habsburg regime."