Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-28
CHARLES IS HIS own
FOREIGN MINISTER
Desire for Peace Anglers Pam
Germans-ResponsibIe for
Czernin'S Moves.


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written Tor The sunday Star sho ~
Chicago Daily News.
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Gihpelol 10 mo
minister. o..
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ings. 1t was made repeatedly In Swift
garland last winter nv Austrians OF
-, ~ tb,t tim.
nlgn authority Even at .h"' Inns
there seemed to be considerable suspi- 70
cion in the mind of the thirty-year-o
A,str,o, amneror that C,bunt Czernin
-,san .r.u;.. ,,-;,h ,he r.sr.~
was IN closer allegiance with INC
man foreign Office at Berlin than with
the Austrian foreign Office at Vienna,
=, .,h;oh -. ,v.. the otf,cia, head This .
VI ""1e" "e ""o my
peror Charles had found ways of get
ting into touch with foreign powers :
without taking Count Czernin into his
confidence, partly because he feared
that disclosure of his plans to Berlin
might interfere with his program. e.
The famous Prince Sixtus letter.
which precipitated the present crisis.
was probably not the first document OF
its kind, nor was it, in all Likelihood,
the last attempt which Emperor Charles
made to take foreign affairs In his
own hands. Whether baron 6urian'
Count Czernns successor-and preae-- =
cessor-wiil take sucn Imperial in!tla-
tive with less onense only the Iueuro
can tell! -
1t IS Baron burians Irienoiy ateItuue
toward the oni.eo StaIes. even asalhss
p prestast in ,n to rs '"A' "Ao VIC Va
greatest interest " U.s.
SnafleS D1ceaees 1eaee aoSee' .sr
wbe, all the inside stories of.
the present difficulties come out
there NAV he further interesting reve-
iations cf mans of Emperor Charles
which conf1icted with those of the Ger
man foreign office and of Count Ger
min. When President Wilson made his
Ianuarv neace program sneech it was
declared in Switzerland that Emperor
Charles dictated the Favorable reply
which Count Czernin made, despite the
opposltion OF th.t tinan new smnS S.I
was placed IN SWISS cre!es on tne CON
vlction .naI En i; ou H re.a vas a.,otn ms
as tnreatenlng Soun. SIermin h una. .ne
slsn!ese 1aiteIlhs Ifoin pa.i. ~ p1aSe 2
would result IN MS immaculate re.ire-
ment
From similar sources came the re. :
port tnat II was the emperor own sus
gestion wnlcn resulted IN senolns 70
washington the view tnat second
speech from PRESIDENT Wllson mooily-
ing his first speech OF fourteen points
by new statement OF basic interpreta--
ttonS would bring peace nearer. Ineh
the Austrian emperor went personally
to the German emperor to force ia
vorable reply from count Won dertlng.
German chancellor. 1t was reported
that there was a similar inspiration for
February reply to President Wilson.
suggesting an immediate Austro-
American conference, cabled direct to
Washington through a neutral channel.
.l IL
never reached Washington-did not
raise Emperor Charles view of Count
Czernin's ability When the whole VIII
son Hertling-czernin series of peace
battle began, it is likely that there was
more disapnointment in the imperial
nalace at Vienna than in either the Ger. /.
han or the Austrian foreign offices.
man Ut the Austrian io'e'sn oi'' '-'
At outs With Pan-Germans.
It is also known that Emperor Charles
resented Count Czernin's inability to.
Withstand pan-German pressure at
Brest-Litoysk. The pan-Germans are
the bitterest enemies of the young
Considerable recklessness in Austria. >
There thew could not reach him. He
dashed with them ON MANY questions.
and those clashes have not ended The
"a wben he tries to carry ont some of
his promises to make real democratic
REFORMS IN the ust IL anu naarer tha
Bohemians. for instance; than is COM
Portable for German lnnuence IN AUS
tria.
But even more periious .or ms atnpi-
tons was the result OF Inc bresl-
Litovsk conference as far as II con-
cerned Poland. Charles hoped TO be-
come King OF Poland inc Germans
gave him reason to believe that no
would succeed. But pan-German
megalomania at Brest-LitoVsk turned
this possibility of Polish friendship
into hatred. and Poland Is not now
likely to become a part OF greater
Austria. This is far from unpleasant
for Berlin. Score one more against
Czernin. The same is true of the whole ~
program of the pan-Germans in Russia.
Austria wanted the friendship of the