The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-04

From tho memoirs of Count Czerin" Austrian Premier, Appearing in
~ n 49, Tho London Times.
"The Imperial Godhead" 1 #
But above all the members of the Emperorse encourage conspired to keen
Everything nphasaMta way from hin. ##
This continual desire" Count Czernn says I" onyt to praise ad et,
to he SKIES and never to lt him hear that h al also being anne this
systemau fostering of the idea Oft the Imperial Godhead (which 1t bottom
but merely from an altogether selfish concern ot to incure dhsfavor Or risk
unpleasantneS): this unwhoesome n unmanly state of affarsw was bound
oenese Hl ne emperor "lhnam Who hd become sc uncomnonly disused to
crticsm,w would o always have made it easy for his encourage tic BIZ straight
forward n truthful Nevertheless it is rue that the enervatng atmosphere
winch SURF ohoedM MIN vas ITS au last the root OF al eVh att his court"
Count Czernin says that when he came intoo official contact With the kaiser
1917 n 1918, HI emperore vmced such a horror of n unpleasant dis
eusslon that it was difficult to conduct business with him. Thus on m occa-
on:
Il as with the Emperor Charles on the eastern front and broke my journey
for a couple of hours. 1 had various things to submit to hin. non of
which was particularly unpleasant I do not know why, but it was obvioust that
that emperor apprehended a dsagreeabe discussion and offered a passive
resistance to the request for a private audience. He invited me to breakfast
with him in the dining car where w e sat IN the company of about 10 other
gentlemen sc thu there was n o possibility of starting a bnsn@s conversation
reakfas "a been over some time, tut the emperor made no sign OF moving.
l vas obliged seveTalt times to request him to grant me a private interview. n
O. the last occasion wihc considerable emphasis, before he rose from te able
nc even then he drew into the conversation n official IRON tn foreign office
as though h emeant to have protection at hand din the event Of m trouble sue
as he anticipated.
humble themselves even before a throne, but al a rleth their suffering in h
Byzantine atmosphere of Germany vas greater than their enjoyment"
- During the second half of the war in particular The leading
men aroun the kaiser We're not Byzantine-Ludendoff especially as not
Byzantinism in n fom altogether alien to Ludendorffs nature. Ener-
did lot mince his words. 1t was IL ne to him, whether he had his emperor
or anyone else before him, h e went for everybody who stood in his way
deputies-in a word, men Of the people n Of ching for years pros
uated themselves before TIL Emperor. William! A word from him intoxicated
former regime with its degeneracy, n above al. the emperor himself!
There is n o doubt THAT in Berlin Byzantinism assume far more
high dignHaries kissed the enperors hand vas a proceeding that would have
beer impossible in Vienna. never heard Of ny of our people. wen among
Berlin "a of lutte everyday occurrence l have often seen examples of it
For instance, after a trip OF board the Meteor during kel week thu Emperor
handed the pins to them and great was M aaonishment when I say both of
them ksst the imperial hand as they thanked him..