Best of wishes and thank you for all your efforts.

When you hit Paris, look us up!

Good luck and let us know soon regarding your next
endeavors. Taki’s Top Drawer is now one of the premier
sites. Certainly someone appreciative of both the house
of Hapsburg and (apparently) H.P. Lovecraft can only
have a remarkable future.

Thank you for all your excellent work, Mr. Sarto and best wishes in all your future endeavors.

The Lord bless and keep you in your new pursuits Mr. Sarto.

what is it with you paleos and “old europe”?  yuo know, the place we LEFT to come here.  good luck and thank you for the great job you did here

@Mr. Sarto,
Let me add my sincere thanks for an intellectually stimutlating
site, always with something fascinating and at times provocative.

As you end with the Austrian national hymn, let me mention
to you, if you don’t already know, that ALL of the famous
“Sissi” movies from the 1950s are now out in superb DVD
transfers on the KochLorber label. Of course, for those
who do not know, the young and very beautiful Romy Schneider
was chosen by directer Ernst Marischka to star in a series of
three movies about the life of the Kaiserin Elisabeth of
Austria (and wife of Emperor Franz Josef). The set includes
the three Sissi movies, plus the earlier one she did
on the romance between Victoria and Albert. The set also
contains the condensation, “Forever My Love,” that was
actually commercially released in the early ‘60s in the USA.
Of course, with the three complete films, you would really
not need to watch the condensed version.

My favorite remains the second one, with its elaborate
coronation scene in Budapest...with the Kaiser/Konig riding his
charger up the mound of dirt taken from every Hungarian
province, with the bishops of Hungary riding in on splended
horses, and the ermine-wearing magnates saluting their
king. It’s enough to bring tears to a diehard monarchist,
and to inspire even a hardened republican.

Again, the title is: “The Sissi Collection” (w/Romy Schneider)
and it’s on KochLorber DVDs (5 DVDs).

Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser!

My regards and best wishes.

Lieber Herr Sarto,

I’m going to try to translate your patriotic song, as best I can do, 25 years after I studied any German!  (the tongue of most of my Mother’s ancestors!)

Gott erhalte, Gott beschütze
Unsern Kaiser, unser Land!
Mächtig durch des Glaubens Stütze
Führt er uns mit weiser Hand!
Laßt uns seiner Väter Krone
Schirmen wider jeden Feind:
Innig bleibt mit Habsburgs Throne
Österreichs Geschick vereint.

...God beholds, and God looks after,
Our temporal head of government, and our country!
Our king/emperor powerfully leads us with his wisdom (his wise hand’s guidance),
And so, let us follow the leadership
of the Hapsburg emperors, against our enemies!” (Which is very inconsistent with what most of the Ron Paul-bots would say!  :-)....

2. Fromm und bieder, wahr und offen
Laßt für Recht und Pflicht uns stehn;
Laßt, wenns gilt, mit frohem Hoffen
Mutvoll in den Kampf uns gehn!
Eingedenk der Lorbeerreiser
Die das Heer so oft sich wand:
Gut und Blut für unsern Kaiser,
Gut und Blut fürs Vaterland!\

...in rough translation, something there about shedding Austrian/German bowels and blood for the German Fatherland - and, with all due respect, as a grandson of Britain I say, “TWO FINGERS TO THAT, but I respect the honourable enemies of my ancestral country, Great Britain!”

3. In Verbannung, fern den Landen
Weilst Du, Hoffnung Österreichs.
Otto, treu in festen Banden
Steh’n zu Dir wir felsengleich.
Dir, mein Kaiser, sei beschieden
Alter Ruhm und neues Glück!
Bring den Völkern endlich Frieden,
Kehr zur Heimat bald zurück!

...This seems to be an Austrian WAR song of WW I.  I honour the valour of all Austrian warriors who fought against MY British “kith and kin” in that stupid war.  And so I say to FJ Sarto, as one warrior to another:

“Peace be with you.”

And only real warriors, or their posterity, can understand what that means.

Peace to you, and God bless you, FJ Sarto, Christian patriot of Austria.

Thank you F.J.Sarto for a very interesting,unconventional band of writers and selection of articles. Thanks also for a well-refereed comments section. You allowed a lot of freedom and that made it lively, informative,stimulating and sometimes maddening. God bless you.

Dear F.J.:
My best wishes accompany you on your trip back to the roots of America’s majority population and culture.
I also enjoy your patriotism for the old Austria-Hungary as expressed with the national anthem. Now just one question to you once you sing that anthem: Is your allegiance to the Kaiser, i.e. the Habsburgs, or to the Vaterland?
Which leads to the next question: For the majority of Austrians (including that nefarious Austrian Adolf Hitler - may his name live in infamy) at the time of the expiration of the Kaiser’s rule, that Vaterland was Germany, with Austria being a part of it; as a matter of fact this sentiment was feared so much, that the victors at Versailles felt necessary to outlaw such a unification.
However, if you don’t share that view and see Oesterreich as your “Vaterland”, how is it that nearly 1,000 years of being part of the “Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation” are being tossed aside in favor of adherence to that short lived construct “Austria-Hungary”?
And, are “Austrians” Germans like “Bavarians” and “Lipper” and “Prussians”, or do you consider them a different breed altogether?
Just thought I’d ask.

<<[A]re “Austrians” Germans like “Bavarians” and “Lipper” and “Prussians”?>>

Ah, what is it to be “German”?  Good question.

The only more fake nation in Europe is Belgium, and it is in the process of upbreaking.  The reunification of Germany was the pinnacle of 20th century Revolutionary “nation building”, so the only place to go from there was “downhill”; will “Germany” survive the 21st century?  Will Spain?  France?  Will the EU destroy the nations of Europe and they be replaced with the older, more authentic, states/regions/provinces?

My opinion: no one is “German”, it is an invention of The Revolution.

Thank you for an interesting question, my good Herr Hoermann--and for many such worthy contributions to our Comments section. My first secular loyalty is to the Royal and Imperial House of Habsburg, which ruled my ancestors for the better part of a thousand years-- and who have the best claim of anyone to the dormant crown of the Holy Roman Empire. I feel a special fraternal love for the German peoples of Europe, but also a devotion to my fellow Slavic, Magyar, Jewish, Gypsy, and other subjects of this benevolent dynasty. 

I thank Dr. Cathey for his helpful film recommendations; I will buy the DVDs today! In return, I’d like to offer another cinematic suggestion: The Ralph Fiennes film “Sunshine,” which depicts three generations of a productive, patriotic Jewish family in Hungary, from 1910-1955. I have never seen the horror of the 20th Century so well depicted as in this film, which traces the appalling decline from the civility of Kaiser Franz Josef, through the Bolshevik coup of Bela Kun, the regency of that traitor (to Kaiser Karl I) Admiral Horthy, the butcheries of the Nazi Arrow Cross, and finally the Stalinist purges of the 1950s. Anyone who believes in the myth of progress is only one DVD from the truth.

God Bless and May God prosper you, brother. Thank you for all of your good works.

Mr. Sarto,
Many thanks for your work here, which has produced what is now the best paleo site on the net. In future, due to your foundational efforts, we can look forward to even greater things to come from this site.
With respect to “Gott Erhalte”, I seem to recall reading it one of Joseph Roth’s novels, perhaps, that one of the great, but also somewhat tragic, things about the Dual Monarchy was that “Gott Erhalte” was the favorite in the Crown Lands, but that “Die Wacht Am Rhein” was the favorite in German Austria.
In any event, pay a visit to the Kapuzinergruft and say a prayer for those interred there (and to Kaiser Karl on Madeira, for whose intercession we pray) for me.
Woody Jones

On your way to the Imperial City, please pay my respects to St. Michael’s in Munich and to Kloster Ettal, where Bonhoeffer was sheltered and our King educated, and should your travels take you further, to Monte Cassino and Grotaferrata.

We will miss you greatly, and I hope that your trip and \
future endeavors are all you expect them to be.

Prosit.

Dear F.J.,

Thank you for your encouragement, good sense, open mind, and critical remarks. And most of all, for correcting my mistakes. The best beer is brewed in Mittleuropa, so you are headed to the promised land.

Prosit und Alles Gute,

Patrick Foy

May the snow be at your back all the way from Lech to Vienna.

And do come back soon- you have created an oasis in a wasteland.

My thanks to Dr. Cathey for his recommendation of the Sissi series of movies.  I saw Forever My Love more years ago than I can remember, but never realized it was a condensation.  I’ve put the Sissi series in my Netflix rental list, but am advised that there is a long wait.  As for the movie Sunshine, I will never forget it, although not for the content, as interesting as that was.  I returned from seeing that movie to find a burglar in my house.  I chased him off, but my TV and my wife’s collection of CDs of Irish folk music had already been taken - apparently passed on to a confederate.

A fine man, that Sarto.  Ad multos annos.
Rather pleasant that the only other Sarto of note that I know of was a pope.

D. F. Bonner

Thank you very much for your kind words and faithful readership. Please keep on visiting the site, which will continue to be the most intriguing, edgy, thoughtful conservative publication on the Web. 
Grüß Gott,

Franz Josef Sarto

Just a short note to thank F. J. Sarto for his diligence, as well as his generosity in running my material, not once but several times. I hope that he’ll continue to write for Taki’s Top Drawer in the future.