Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21

| Count CZernlns AuStio-I1uHSaii Ia IL
foreign minister, is out. Baron Stephan
Burian Won
Czernin and Wekerle Ra5ecf' who
Have Stepped Down. czernin in
! this position. again has been chosen
to handle the diplomatic affairs of the
dual monarchy. The Hungarian cabinet.
headed by Premier Wekerle. has re-
signed and Count Tisza chosen to sue
coed him. This in brief reviews the
upheaval in Austria during the week
just closed. q M3A
Unuuestionably the direct cause of
the custer of Czernin from the posi-
ton of foreign minister was due to
the revelations of Premier Clemenceau
showing that Emperor Charles had
made peace oVertureS to France,
though Czernin had insistently declar-
ed that France was the first to usher
in the negotiations. Plainly it was a
case of a monarch taking matters into
his own hands unknown to his chief
diplomatic adviser. CZernin was made
ridiculous. That his resignation would
have come voluntarily in view of the
injury to his future usefulness is a
fact almost undaestioned. But the en-
lister the goat"
There is every indication, however,
that Czernin eventually would have
worked his own downfall through his
activities in other directions The
Austro- Hungarian foreign minister
plainly attempted to carry water on
both shoulders by appealing to the
people of the dual monarchy to stand
firm with the government. promising
rapid strides toward peace. he citing
the peace with Russia and Rumania as
proof of good intentions. while at the
same time he wooed the favor of the
German militarists by his expressions
of accord with Teutonic aims. AS the
result of this policy he pleased no one.
The Czechs and Slovacs well as all
Polish subjects have not been mis-
led by the peace signed at Brest-
Litovsk They since have had proof
of the grasping aims of Germany,
which desires the complete ensfave-
ment of the Czech-Slovac peoples that
Germanic plans may ae furthered. In
addition to this the personal antagon-
ism shown by Czernin to Czech prlncl-
pies and demands in and out of par
lament naturally led to constant an
tagontsm to him from this source
Czernin continued to profess keenest
desires for peace He possibly may
have been sincere in this. Though he
professed to be aligned with the pro-
German influences in the dual mon
archy. he constantly was suspected by
the junker elements of Germany OF
working to bring about an end
to the struggle. He was partic-
ularly Objectionable to Won Hin
denburg and Ludendorff. to whom
| the talk of peace has been almostenad-
dening. Thus it was that the Ger
! mans, though processing keenest &C
cord with Czernin. suspected him new
ertheless.
The pan-German press seems divided
on the Czernin resignation. but the
general viewpoint, is that Czernin was
a logical object of suspicion. though
some newspapers continue i'll their idea
that Czernin was real friend of the
central powers. Count Won Reventlow
and others of the more rabid pan-Ger-
mans, however, never have seen any
thing but cant in the many proteSta-
tions of CZernin for the central pow
ers. and have openly accused the for
mer foreign minister and Emperor
Charles Of laboring to undermine the
working agreement with the central
powers through their activities to
bring about peace.
! There is considerable speculation as
t to what Baron Burian may do in so far as