Evening star., 1919-04-04
Awkward Interviews.

dukes audience with the emperor:
| 1T is very painful for the emperor.
When l enter he walks up and down
in his salon, very formal and stiff
l have to stand at attention befor'
! him. He says you to me and ne
thou formal, not intimate addres
! in Germany, as if he were angry. /;
| usually ends up with Only one cal
rule
In the spring of 1909 there was an
audience during which they had a
severe clash. but at its termination
the emperor shook hands with the
archduke and said. Put we shall re-
main old friends, shall we not?"
Notes by Czernin on Minister An
drassy's audience with the archduke)
| He the archduke) told him CAN
| drassy) everything that one man can
say to another to his face, Except
the words high treason" he did not
! spare him one expression and. pale as
his shirt, Andrassy tottered out.
Count Czernin's note-I doubt il
this is really true. The archduke likes
to exaggerate: Sophie twife of the
archduke) told me she was listening
on such occasions behind the door.
| ''trembling." she said.
To Pull Austria "out of Mud"
never missed an opportunity to ask
the archduke to use his influence with
his majesty, always openly and di-
rectly, and not to expose himself to
the dangers of a secret undergovern-
ment. or to the suspicion of a CANA
rilla. / remember that / told him lit
orally during one Of his visits to
Vinar he is the one destined to pull
the Austrian chariot out of the mud.
so one cannot blame him for prepar-
ing himself for his difficult vocation
during the life of the emperor. But
he will be rightly blamed if he is
agitating secretly against the emperor
and his policy. l added that he should
go as often as possible to the emperor
Besides. was always supported in
this direction by Schwarzenberg and
: Clam.
i Count Czernin's notes regarding his
relations with Archduke Francis Fer
dinand)
| In February, 1903. at St. Moritz I
spoke about Auersperg The arch
duke gave me his word that the state
! had made "a brilliant transaction" for
me and that the matter was settled.
i (The Duke of Auersperg was supposed
to have said that the archduke had
bought some state property at very
low price. so that the state was
/ cheated. There must have been some
! truth in this, because Auersperg used
! this fact in his policy against the
archduke. But Auersperg later apollo
gized and denied having said any
! thing Of the kind.)
Hears Of Murder Threats.
Eight days later-He (the arch
duke) called me into his room. Situ-
alton at o'clock: l was drinking tea
at his desk. He was vis-a-vis in slip
| pers. reading q long report from Bic
nerth. Bienerth says he does not be-
lieve in war. The archduke says he
is going to rule with paragraph IA, if
necessary.
He reads another report, the authov
of which is unknown to me- about
how he should bring the Magyars to
a sensible policy. Then there is
conversation about it, and he express
es the wish that 1 should develop the
idea as to how he should act as en-
peror to make order in Hungary and
Bohemia. Between the lines l feel
that he did not wish any disturbance
in the parts of Bohemia where he
lived. l was with him from until Z.
After dinner he asked for the char
acteristics Of known politicians.
A few days later.-He tells me that
he has received a report to the effect
that three anarchists have left Serbia
to murder him. The police have the
photographs and descriptions Of two
of them. 1t did not bother him He
| said: Advertised murderers are not
dangerous"