Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-11-21

COUNT AGENOR GOLUCHOwSKI.
arms. His idea is the calling toget her
of an international congress-, whose
members should be empowered to
agree upon a division OF the spoiis.
When confronted by the united powers
of Europe, the count argues, the porte
would submit to the inevitable without
bloodshed, and European peace wo1Id
be assured for many years to come.
Count Goluchowski is by no means
visionary. He was for many years at
tached to the Partisan embassy and
served a long term as Austrian minister
to Bucharest, the capital of Roumania.
He is, in fact, more en- rapport with the
aims and ambitions of the Turkish di-
plomacy than any othere ontinental dip
lomat. and his confident assertion that
Turkey would not attempt to oppose
a genuine European concert is entitled
to more than passing consideration.
The friends of the count predict that he
will before long be recognized as the
greatest and most patriotic statesman
of the age. Although by heredity and
inclination a thorough aristocrat, he
ing descended from one of the mos dis
tinguished noble families of Austrian
Poland, he possesses the faculty of at
tracing to his charming mental per
sonality represen tatives of every
stratum of society. He is immensely
wealthy, fond of social life and pa
tron of the turf and chase. His mar
riage to Princess Anne MuraL,
French woman of rare wit and vast
possessions, contributed not a little to-
ward his social success at Paris. He
was born in 1876, and hence has just
reached the age when European states
men are beginning to be recognized by
their contemporaries.
Count Goluchowski's liking for
things French reminds me of his frie nd
ship for the late NJ. Challemel-Lacour,
president of the French senate and at
one time ambassador of France in
London and minister of foreign affa irs.
NJ. ChalIemel-Lacour was not an aris-
tocrat, nor the son of an aristocrat. He
was a scholar who started in life as
professor of philosophy in the
lycees of Pau and Limoges. His
first experience in political life
was as vitriolic opponent of
Napoleon III. who, after the coup
d'etat, banished him from France. In
1889 he returned to Paris and became
director of the Revue Moderne, an cp-
position magazine of remarkable
strength. In 1868 he established the
Revue Politique, with which he was con-
nected until the surrender at Sedan in
1870, when the provisional government
appointed him prefect of the Rhone.
In 1872 he was elected to the chamber r
of deputies, and four years later be-
came n senator. His appointment, in
1879, as ambassador to the court of St.
James stirred up considerable strife in
the house of commons, many of whose
members objected violently to the am
bassador's revolutionary antecedents.
Nevertheless. he served for three years
when he was recalled at his own re-
quest In 1868 he accepted the port
folio of foreign affairs, and shortly
nfterward, on the death of NJ. Ferry, he
came president of the senate, and at the
same time was elected member of the
French academy. After the assassins-
ton of Sadi Carnot he was strong
candidate for the presidency of the re-
public, which went eventually to NJ.
Faure. The friendship which exisre d
between Count Golucbowski, arch
| aristocrat. and Challemel-Lacour, arch
republican. illustrates how two stub
born metals can be blended without in
| juring the strength of either, and to the
advantage of both.
Another man who has won the ad-
mira ticn of the Austrian minister for
foreign affairs is Sir Philip Currie, Brit
ish ambassador at ConstantinopIe. Sir
Philip is a determined, aggressive IN
| dividual, British in his prejndices. but
| cosmopolitan in his official life. He has
drawn up more Joint notes" 70 his