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Pieter m judson the habsburg empire5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Parliaments can only flourish when fundamentals are agreed or at least accepted by the great majorities of all parties. Vain to suppose that the processes and amenities of English House of Commons procedure would afford expression to such bitter divergencies. Vain to assemble such contrary elements in an Empire Parliament house. As Churchill put it, in characteristically restrained prose: An ill-considered assembly of nations at home, with predatory ambitions beyond its borders, historians considered it to be both an anachronistic political project for the twentieth century and deserving of much of the blame for World War One. Maybe seeing his family becoming the occasional object of gentle mockery was a kindness, because when people had taken the time to think about the Habsburg Empire seriously, their thoughts had been liable to be hostile. A decent-seeming fellow, in his long and remarkable career he had opposed both communists and fascists and ended up serving as a Member of European Parliament. The real last of his line, the Archduke Otto von Habsburg, died not long thereafter in 2011, at the age of 98. ![]()
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