Evening star., 1919-04-08
Press Reused Against Ferdinand.
Public Hatred Growing.

How fatally i'll Aehrenthal was the
| archduke did not know.
Upon Tny pointing to the serious con-
dition of the suffering man, he fought
against my opinion as false. The public,
which adhered to the Jewish tale that
/ the attacks of the archduke had brought
| Aehrenthal to his grave. turned in rare
unity against Belvedere, and l was as
tonished over the expression of hate
which l heard in these days from the
i leading persons of the aristocracy.
On the whole. / never placed much
weight on the sentiments of the Aus
i trian aristocracy. 1t is a heap of dead
ashes and no one will ever succeed in
, blowing a spark from it. These people
are neither support nor danger to the
dynasty. BY nature lazy, uneducated
politically, and afraid, they are in general
too weak for good or for ill; but their
example started in the army fearful and
vehement attacks against the heir ap-
PARENT, based '-"on false rumors- created
almost overnight
Another entirely false rumor at that
time which went the rounds of ariSto-
cratic circles from mouth to mouth is
| typical of the sentiment of the ariStoc-
racy. A certain bankrupt ariStocratic
woman offered the Archduchess of Ho-
henburg Ghe archduke's wife) laces
valued at 1000 crowns (s400). After
Z lne SeltSE Hdu WditSu several NSShS
for an answer only 200 crowns ($40)
were sent her, with the remark that the
'laceS were accepted. Nobody was
| ever able to tell me who the woman
was. Each Interpolation was answered
vaguely Although it was an evident lie,
| the story was bruited about and spread.
Here and there, in the Jockey club. in
| salons, on the streets and at occasional
evenings with friends, j have received
| the painful impression that the senti-
Of c
| dominant throughout Vienna-an i'm
! preston which was acknowledged by
Karl SchwartZenberg. who called upon
me purposely in the Hotel Sacher in
order to inform me of his identical i'm
pressions and request me to ask the
archduke to exercise greater care. Not
| with the belief that my influence would
! change anything in the attitude of the
heir apparent, but with the feeling that
! it was my duty to pour clear wine with
my master, who for years has been my
; best friend-wine that none would place
before him-I telephoned to ask if l
could call upon him after the funeral of
Aehrenthal February 22).
GAS One Brother to Another"
He received me with a friendly re-
proach because he believed i had al
ready been in Vienna a week with
out giving signs of life. He was
cudgeling his brain trying to find out
misunderstanding was cleared up by
! the fact that Sophie had met my wife.
prayed him to forget the differ
ence in our rank during the presen-
| tation of that which ! had in my
| heart If he allowed me to speak with
him as zone brother with another"
q" his smiling approval 1 started to
/ tell everything i had in my heart in
general terms without mentioning
| names. ] described to him the in
/ creasing antipathy of the aristocraey
| and the officers circles against him
and against the Duchess of Hohenberg
| and prayed him to be more careful
! and less rough in his expressions and
| actions.
! The effect was exactly what I had
| expected. He was enraged and asserted
| that he never gave any reason for the
bad feeling.
| Watches Aehrenthal's Funeral.
! He defended his attitude in the
| Conrad affair" and reproached me
with having changed my point of
view He exhibited the anger of one
who has long ago realized the truth
/ of a reprOach but will not admit it.
| After he had quieted down little he
spoke almost gently about the sudden
death of the minister anu said he was
sorry for his poor wife and children.
He repeated that he had had no idea
how serious his illness was. He re-
uuested me to go with him to the Of
! flee OF the ODerStnOIHe1ster tcOurt
mastery, whence we could see once
more the funeral passing through the
: streets. Hidden behind the curtain.
we stood silently watching the sad
procession.
Then with a start he suppressed his
! rising emotion. and without word
| about the sad case, he started to speaI<
about Berchtold and his expected
policy
left him with the sad feeling which
| one has when one sees friend step
upon an inclined plane and has not
| the power to ward off the coming mis-