Cavalier

Despite the dreams of romantics, wiseacres in Austria paid little attention last week to talk of a Habsburg restoration. A political move in which they were more willing to believe was the possible establishment of a Regency for Austria on the model of Admiral Horthy's Regency in Hungary. First candidate for such a post is obviously Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr, descendant and namesake of the great general who saved Vienna from the Turks in 1683. When there was another little Cabinet shift in Vienna last week, a second candidate for Regent of Austria jumped into the public mind. Dauntless old Prince Alois von Schonburg-Hartenstein, 75, was advanced from Under Secretary to Minister of National Defense.

Knight of the Golden Fleece, onetime vice president of Imperial Austria's Upper House, a Colonel-General of Cavalry so reckless of his own safety that he was wounded four times in the War. the Prince has a long record of gallantry. But to Viennese that record means nothing compared to the day, month ago, when unarmed and unguarded he walked into the Socialist lines smiling like a kindly grand father to tell sullen crowds: "I am Schonburg. . . . Now do drop this game like sensible people and go home."

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