New-York tribune., 1921-11-20

self and his wife on thei,
way to exile in Funchal. Prince Ind
wig Windischgraetz's "My Memoirs
takes on highly contemporaneous in
terest. Windischgraetz was one of the
close friends and advisers of the voun.
Emp peror-King in tha last wears of +,s
Dual Monarchy He was fitted to he
so, for he was one of the very fau
hungarian magnates who sympathized
unreservedly with Charles's desire r.
break with the old order when he sue
ceeded the aged and tight-sitting head
OF that order, Francis Joseph.
You are the greatest revolutionary
IN Austria Hungary" Windischeraetz
once said to Charles. And that was
true to a large extent. From the reve-
latlons IN these volumes it appears that
Charles was absolutely bent on hreak-
ing off the alliance with GERMANY IN
making separate peace with the Allies
on granting autonomy to the Czech.
Sfovak and South Slav portions of the
empire, on enlarging the franchise and
introducing everywhere fuller meas
ure of political freedom and self-gov-
ernment. The initiative in the SEN
arate peace negotiations through Prince
slStus OF Bourbon came from him. He
wanted to free himself from depen-
dence on Germany and to recopnize
by political reforms the sufferings and
nerolc endurance of his unfortunate
people The trouble was that he was
pi1able and vacillating and was served
by statesmeN snd soldiers faithful to
the old regime, narrow-minded oh
stlnate and incurably bureaucratic.
Ihey either craftily opposed his
policies or executed them hunglingly.
"indlschgraetz was man after the
Emperor-King's heart. He had Travelled
around the world, acquired liberal
ideas and was painfully conscious of
the breakdown of the old imperial
machine. Francis Joseph's one idea
had been to divide and rule. He PLAYED
OFF one kingdom against the other. He
let no department head know what an
other department head was doing. The
general staff and the Foreign Office
worked at cross purposes. No bureau
crat was allowed to have any opinions
or exert any influence outside his own
limited sphere. All the threads were
gathered up in the hands of the infirm
and over-burdened old Emperor. When
the war came there was no possibility
of real unification of administration.
drifted along to ruin.
tied hand and foot by the Hapsburg
system.
Windischgraetz fought gallantIy at
the front. He also sat in the Hungar-
ian Parliament and for the last two
years of the war held the important
post of Hungarian Food Administrator
He speaks with contempt of the Aus
-rian high command-and of most of
the Hungarian and Austrian states
men. He is bitter critic of Karolyi,
whom he accuses of conspiring with
she Bolshevists to overturn The mon
archy in Hungary. Burial. he says,
was incompetent, and Czernin an un-
dependable Prime Minister who played
fast and lose with his imperial master.
In Hungary the Legislature squabbled
all through the war over the question
Of extending the franchise, oblivious of
all larger considerations of national
policy.
Andrassy, Hungary's most accom-
plished leader, kept out of power for
personal reasons until few weeks be-
fore the crash, figures largely in the
book. But the towering figure in It
is Tisza, the rigid, unbending Calvin
ist, who for years held Hungary in
the hollow of his hand. Windischgraetz
was in opposition to Tisza on the fran
chise issue. The aid man was reac-