New-York tribune., 1910-05-09
was Grown Prince RudoIph's Executor

Ambassador Szoegyeny- -1Iarich, who has
inst been created a count by his sovereign.
Emperor Francis Joseph. has represented
the latter AT Berlin for the last eighteen
years. and IS Of all the foreign diplomats
st the Kaiser-s capital the one who is on
terms os closest intimacy with him. There
: probably no member OF Austrta's diplo-
n7aric service who is TO such an extent
initiated into all the family secrets OF the
historic house Of Hapsburg as Count
Szoegvenv-Narich. and Il may be renem-
bered that he was not only the closest
personal friend Of Crown Prince Rudolf
but also the executor OF mis- will, which that
i'll fated prince had confded TO him some
months before his shocking death. Il was
TO him. too. that the Crown Prince ad-
dressed one OF the four letters which he
wrote al Meyerlins on the night Of his
death. and which were found on the follow
ing morning on the table beside his corpse,
The orher letters were addressed TO the
Duke Of Braganza, father Of that Dom
Miguel who married Miss Anita Stewart:
70 the Emperor and to the Empress. The
letter to Szoegyeny. who was at the time
chief Of one Of the divisions of the De
partrnent Of Foreign Affairs and second
Under Secretary Of State. contained direc-
tions with regard 70 the disposition Of
some confidential documents. fntTusted him
with the examination Of ali his letters.
rapers. correspondence and diaries. with
authority 20 destroy or preserve as he So W
ft and wound UP by declaring, Il must
leave this world" Probably the contents
Of this letter would never have become
known had it not been for the fact that
i was necessary for Szoegyeny to place il
on official record in order to enable him
10 fulfil the wishes of his imperial friend
with regard to his papers and correspond
erce in defiance Of the protest Of Crown
Princess Stephanie.
Il was at Emperor Williams s personal re-
quest that Szoegynev was appointed not
long afterward ambassador to Berlin with
out having previously occupied any other
diplomatic post. The Kaiser had been
united TO the Austrian Crown Prince since
carly bovhood by ties Of the closest af-
fection that. in spite Of all that has been
said 70 the contrary. subsisted to the very
last without anything occurring ever "a
impair their friendship. Szoegyeny had
been in measure a party thereto, and
was valued and trusted by the Kaiser as
the confdant Of his chum. II was, there
fore. only natural that after the Crown
BrfnTe : GeGlN ne SDPLiG WISH u nave
Szoe-yeny at Berlin. There the latter has
occupied an altogether exceptional posi-
ton. superior TO that Of every other for
eign diplomat. treated rather like a per-
sonal friend than like an ambassador even
OF an allied power. There is no doubt that
his presence in Emperor Williams capital
during the last eighteen years has con-
tributed in no small degree to the mainte-
nance and 70 the strengthening of the Of
fensive and defensive union between Ger
many and Austria.
Szoegyeny is a son of the Hungarian
Tice-Chancellor and chief justice, Ladislas
Won SzoeEyney. who managed. in spite of
the fact that he was called upon TO pre-
side at the trial of the Magyar patriot
Kossuth for high treason after the rebel
lion Of 1s48. TO retain the good win of his
fellow HunEarians.