ROMANCE IN HIS CAREER
The Archduke Francis Ferdinand was one of the most significant figures in European, life of to-day. A few years ago, when Emperor Francis Joseph had a gra.ve illnees, his nephew and heir, who has now been assassinated, commanded widespread interest, and sinco that time has been more or less in the public eye; before that he was much of an enigma, not only to his countrymen, but also to foreign nations. A contributor to an American paper says : up for adding a new battalion to every Austro-Hungarian regiment, and finally the Archduke set about the tremendous task of creating a great Austrian fleet. " This naval reform was the most difficult of all. Not only is there no naval sentiment in Austria, but the combined Austro-Hungariair delegations, v which vote money for defence, arc traditionally contemptuous of the idea of Austria as a naval power. This did not daunt Franz Ferdinand. With characteristic resolution he set himself the Herculean task of creating a naval sentiment in a vast population of farmers and peasants, of wliich not one in a hundred ever has seen the sea."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1914, Page 5
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188ROMANCE IN HIS CAREER Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1914, Page 5
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