Evening star., 1919-04-01
BY 4. r.. DECKER.

dicate the eager desire of the late Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand to strengthen
the Austro- Hungarian empire against
the time when he should succeed the
aged Francis Joseph as emperor. Count
ming for the future.
The all highest commanded a memo
randum of analysis about persons.
(Service of the imperial cot >, Nlnar.
February. 1909.
Your imperial hghness gave me (Czer-
nin) at ST. MoritZ the all highest COM
mand to lay before you memorandum
in which l should develop the charac-
teristics of those men whom | consider
suitable for the most important posi-
tions in the future.
First of all. | must take the liberty to
lay at your feet my most sincere thanks
for this new sign of grace, so that find
only one way of expressing my thank-
fulness. and that is by speaking with
i abSolute frankneSS
But before | start to go deeper into
the characteristics of these persons who
are supl 3sed to be selected as the first
servants of your imperial highness in
the future | must say few words about
the proba BILE development of the polltl-
cal situation in our monarchy.
Advice to Cali Highest"
Internal politics-When your imperial
highness takes over the heavy burden of
the imperial crown then your all high
est so l hope to God, will not permit
yourself to be crowned Internationally
King of Hungary. but will present your
all highest conditions. Every Christian
thinking monarch who would neglect
this would Immediately by his oath be
bound a slave of the Magyars. After
ward there would Immediately start in
Budapest stormy scenes in parliament
and on the street. To rule in parlia-
mentary way will at first be impossible.
but that would not matter. A second
"FeyeEvary" epoch would be the result,
and l, of course, would prefer to have
an Austrian rather than Magyar gen.
eral at the head of the government. AS
soon as the MagyarS see that the wind
has changed, that at the head of the
government is monarch who does not
know retreat. a monarch who is pre-
pared to use bayonets, if necessary, they
will stop to think. The Austrian min
listers must send to Hungary an invita-
ton to conference in which the settle
ment of 1867 will be revised; that is, a
basis should be created, according to
which your imperial highness would be
likely to be crowned King Of Hungary.
This revision has to be directed as
follows: First, to secure, once for all.
military and other imperial rights of
the crown, and second. to help other ma
tons popuiating Hungary to secure their
rights.
If this plan should fail. as I do not
believe it will because of the Magyar
a second expedient re-
grant of the general uni
versal suffrage measure and the eX-
traction of a ministry from this par
lament. Then We will have in Hun
gary a non-Magyar parliament and
similar cabinet.
Military Intervention Last Trump.
In the third place, military inter-
vention in Hungarv would have to be
considered. This is the last trump,
but 1 hardly think it would have to
be played.
The respectfully suggested confer
ence for the revision of the 1867 set.
tlement would surely last months. if
not years, and Vienna would not rush
it, because the Magyars would keenly
feel this parliamentless condition. The
longer it lasts the softer it will be-
come. Recruits, the budget and all
necessities will come on the ground of
imperial order, and we will act with
great energy against demonstrations
All non-Magyar leaders, especially
Magyar renegades, must be honored
and rewarded. If this action is car
ried out consistently one will very
soon see how the majority of all cir
cles will turn away from the Magyars
toward Vienna.
During these fights with the Mag
vars order must be maintained in Aus
tria and especially in Bohemia. In
Bohemia the conditions have become
frightfully worse, and the Czech ques-
tion today is not less important than
the Magyar problem. Impossible as it
is to settle this question in a parlia-
mentary way, it is just as possible to
finish it through an imperial grant.
To settle it in d parliamentary way
would mean to obtain the consent of
the Germans-klovac, BAKE, Wolf and
Genossen (associates)-that is, the
consent of those men who are the
deadly enemies of the dynasty and the
empire and who do not want peace at
all, because then they would be out of
it themselves. The ministers of the
future should recognize once for all
that negotiations WITH these men are
entirely impossible. They must at
least learn to distinguish these boast
ers (maulheden) and expense makers
from the peaceful majority of the peo-
pie who would like to go undisturbed
about their business and would Like to
have their rights.
So long as we identify the repre-
sentatives and the Jews of the press
with the population and take the first
mentioned as the representative Of the
latter (population) one Will never
prosper Those who want these are
politically Indifferent. The majority
of the people generally do not vote at
all or they follow the election ballots
placed in their hands by the agitators,
since they know little of the whole
procedure. Therefore the elections
based on the general election law are
giving only a false picture painted
by the noisemakerS and an unfavor-
able picture of the peace-loVing,
work loving population.
Prison or Hanging for Leaders.
The Bohemian question has to be
solved by ignoring the representatives
Of the people and the press and by
ourselves giving peace directly to the
people In Bohemia also it will be i'm
possible to get around the affair with
out disturbances because those in
stigators, until now unpublished. have
too much power. I do not think that
we shall be able to establish the laws
granted without certain exceptional
measures, but as soon as the leaders
sit in prison or are hanged the tran
quillity of the people will become
epidemic'
Nevertheless one factor, which seems
important to me, has to be considered
Your imperial highness will become
overburdened with cares and busy
without rest. 1t is desirable, there
fore, that that part of the monarchy
in which your imperial highness will
live shall not be part of the most af-
fected one. SO that your imperial high
ness should feel as little as posi- BILE
And one thing happens to be favor
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