The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-28
Sought Freedom.

From the documents and letters It
viii be shown that Francis Ferdinand
was working. on building up a strong
austria which would eventually eman -
cipate itself from the influence Of Ber-
lin, This was blocking Berlin's plan for
expansion toward the east and the Ber-
I'm government came to an understand
ing with the Budapest government TO
offset the plans OF Francis Ferdinand.
From one OF the letters Il IL evident
that the German emperor's son Eitel
Frederick, was selected to study the
Of the Magyar nobility, Although no
positive proof was found from the docu-
ments on hand as TO the conspiracy to
XIII Archduke Francis Ferdinand, It il
sufficiently evident that there was no
conspiracy in Serbia for that purpose.
The archduke was rather a friend of
Serbia In hatred OF the Magyars, as he
Knew bf the conspiracy Between the
Berlin and the Budapest governments.
IT Is shown from the letters that when
Aehrenthal (Austro- Hungarian foreign
niinister) annexed Bosnia In 1909 and
Serbia protested through Russia and
was supported by England, count Cser-
min had an audience with Francis Fer
dinand, The latter was against war
with, Serbia as the powers would say
halt after Serbia was over-ridden n
nothing would be gained IN such q war.
But Count Hoetsehdorf, the .chief Of
staff, was strongly for war, The Aus
t~ro-Hungarian general staff was
strongly under the Influence Of the Ger
Nd5-That a strong e~entralized Aus
tria under Francis Ferdinand was too
strong a barrier against German expan-
sion toward the neNt far east, Francis
F%erdinand started to centralize his
istry Of ths imperial court Oh which the
inteptlon Was 10 offset Magyar power,
"t2)AThat there was a strong oppor
sition against the. direct, secret and
common electoral right for Austria and
"81EThat there was a fusion OF ali
aristocrats and landlords In Austria and
Hungary for, the support Of the emperor
against peoples rights and social demo
Gratis. FeudAllsn and d%espotlsm was
supposed to return under Francisco
toerats with other landlords. wanted 70
rule, In Hungary Count Tisza and a
| certain Mr., kristoffy were the secret
supposed to return under Francis
through count Czernin, Other Hun
documents, were pre-aernan and called
| rebels by Francis Ferdinand.
Dangerous to Kaiser.
Again Francis Ferdinand was dan
BeT?ub 70 the .AieTHlaH eIlpSiVI anu NE
aspirations. Emperor William feared
and hated the. Says, but liked tn, Mag,
vars. He said that Francis Ferdinand
was, too rabid toward the Magyars and
tried to influence him.
"A way. via German Austria ana Hun
gary to the far east was natural, as
The Magyars had aspirations FOR Bosnia
and Herseg6vinA. The Magyars, with a
German prince AS their king elite
Frederick, would have been the best
allies OF William II, As the pro-Gerfnan
ana BfoWar Austrian general staff with
other connecting link with the aspira-
lions Of the Germans In the far east;
The war has proved all this, The old
1 Austrian emperor and Emperor Charles
were too stupid to see the real cause OF
the war and the aims OF the Germans
EThere are in the letters interesting
details Of personal talks OF Count Ger.
min aud Emperor william In kiel In
1908. William said:
IAN Europe has TO unite ecenom-
leally against America
ut may interest you TO be Informed
that Count Czernin IS still working witt
exsEmperor Charles for the re-estab-
iishment Of the Hapsburg throne. The
documents we have on hand will make
both emperors, German as well as Aus
TRAN, absolutely impossible among theii
own people when they are published
They. wifi expose the ihtrigues Of thu
H%aBsbufgs against the German I'm
perial family. as well a., the ihtrignes Of
Emperor William against the Haps'
butgs."
ut is only fair to point out that thI
Magyar portion of the conspiracy .wai
engineered by German-eontfolled mobiles
Ali of whom were ~repudiated and exllet
when Karolyi came to power"