New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
The Last Unhappy Hours Of
The Austro-I hungarian Dynasty
Prince Ludwig Windisch graetz Pictures
Leaders and Political Events
in Dual Monarchy

tlonary on this and was unwillinp to
yield anything to the masses, especial
ly to the on-Hungarian elements. But
the author pays an unavoidable tribute
to his force and energy He was the
non whose claws everybody dreaded
Even those who hated him admired him
de was firm supporter of the Ger
man aillance. He wanted to chastise
Serbia. Yet he advised moderatine
the ultlmatum to the Serbs and, later
ne fought against Gcrmanys fatal de-
cison to renew unrestricted submarine
warfare on February /, 1917. (Win-
dlschgraetz draws a pathetic picture of
him in the closing days when this
iron nature weakened and confessed d
I'VE are beaten on the floor of the
Hungarian House of Delegates. Here
Is another picture of him, throwing a
curious light on his naive HUNGARIAN
tempe rament:
"His obstinacy impressed people.
and on one point, his love for Hun
gary, all were one with him. I re-
before one of the tours in the
provinces which we were to make
together. We met in private room
IN the hotel Hungaria, in Budapest,
where Tisza intended to dine with
some of his adherents, of course, to
the accompaniment of gypsy music.
When | arrived Tisza was standing
in his shirtsleeves in front of the
conductor, who was fddling away
with his orchestra for bare life, and
dancing. There were no women pres
ent, only myself and the two or three
other men of the party, but Tisza,
the gray-haired old man-he was
long past fifty, the highest official
in the land, Prime Minister-was
dancing, lost in thought, speechless.
bewltched and fred by the rhythms
which are the breath of life to Hun
garians. We sat in a corner and ate
and drank and talked interminablv.
Only Tisza danced. Alone, for four
whole hours without intermission,
engrossed in the thoughts the gypsy
music set going in his Hungarian
brain. Now and again he looked at
the conductor with his large eyes
the dark gypsy instantly OWNED
what was wanted, changed the key,
started another and yet another
Think of Bethmann- -Hollweg or AS
quith or Clemenceau in such a role!
Here is contribution on a vexed
point in the history of the origins of
the war:
Long, long afterwards the-in-
terval the war had been lost and the
monarchy had fallen to pieces-my
cousin Berchtold told me at my villa
at Clarens of an important episode
which had occurred at that time, that
is, July 80, 1914. Bethmann- Hollweg
had been asked by the English gov
ernment to forward Grey's proposal
to the Austrian Foreign Minister and
to try to persuade the Ballplatz to
modify the ultimathm to Serbia
"Berchtold was lunching with Tchir-
schky, the German Ambassador,
when the telegram arrived. Tschr-
schky was not enchanted with this
proposal, nor was Berchtold; they
would rather have compelled Serbia
to capitulate Internationally. Berch-
told admitted this quite calmly But
this request of Grey's could not be
refused without further ado. Berch-
told, therefore, went at once to the
Emperor, who said: Yes, but / must
first ask Tisza
''Tisza was asked by telephone and
gave his consent. The note went to
Berlin in the evening.
''ln the meantime Berlin was al
ready far advanced with mobiliza-
ton. Francis Joseph's conciliatory
attitude was inopportune. In Berlin
they wanted war. And the note was
not forwarded to England"