The New York herald., 1922-02-19
FRANCIS FERDINAND !
PLOTTED AGAh,,SST
HUNGARY'S FUTURE
Murdered Archduke Had
Designs Tending to Dis
rupt Empire.
REVEALED BY LAMMASCH
Notes Of Last Premier Show
Conspiracy Against Magyar
Constitution.
REVEALED BY LAMMASCH

Special Gable TO THE New YORK HERALD.
Copyright. 1929. by THE NEW YORK HERALD.
VIENNA, Feb. 1S-If Archduke
Francis Ferdinand had not been MUIR
dered at Sarajevo, giving rise to the
great war. the Austro Hungarian mon
archy probably would have been dis
rupted anyway owing to the Arch
dukes strong antipathy to Hungary's
position in the Dual Empire.
That is the view of the late Helm
rich Lammaseh, the last Premier of
the former monarchy. who was one Of
the Archduke's most intimate advis-
ers, as set forth in his private notes
of daily events which have just been
published here. 1t was we'll known
everywhere that TIE Archduke in
tended to break down Hungary's po-
litical authority. but the means by
which he planned to do so have not
been known hitherto.
Plan Perfected In 1910.
According to Herr Lammasch the plan
was perfected as long ago as 1910. Tho
Archduke when he entered into a NOR
ganatic marriage with Countess Sophie
Chotek renounced the claim TO suc-
cession of his wife and children although
he had reserved all his own rights.
Apparently he intended to keep this
pledge and was determined to strength
en- the bonds between all parts of the
monarchy.
He would have refused to take the
oath OF the Hungarian constitution as
had Francis Joseph. Moreover he had a
great desire to establish a central parlia-
ment with legislative power based on
proportional representation coupled with
the tax burdens of the district from
which the parliament members were
elected. knowing that would have
caused furore in Hungary ways were
actually under consideration whereby
change in the constitutional law could
have been effected.
Count Czernin, DR.. Spitzmueller. gov
ernor of the Austro-Hungarian Bank.
and Herr Lammasch were called I'm. and
the two former suggested direct negotia-
tions with Hungary by granting her
her own customs frontier as well az
the annexation of Bosnia and tnen by
suppressing the name Austro-Hungarian
monarchy and substituting the title
"Hapsburg Monarchy" II the Hun
garianS would not nave CpHSenlcp, pl
course the deal would have fallen
through.
To Win Minorffies.
The Archduke and Herr Lammascn
had other ideas. such as wanting TO alter
the right to vote in Hungary by intro
ducing universal suffrage, which was 20
draw the power away from the ruling
classes and the nobility, thus allowing
the masses of the German, Slav ard
Rumanian populations gradually to ss-
sumo a position which would enable the
Archduke's constitutional changes TO. 60
through.
1t Is now recognized that this in time
would have produced a sort OF treble
monarchy" with the Slav interests well
represented Besides being crowned an
Austrian Emperor with a great cere-
monial attended by all the European
sovereigns the Archduke wanted two
other crowning ceremonies instituted.
one for Hungary at Budapest and tie
other for Bohemia at Prague. But tns
Sarajevo tragedy blasted all these
schemes, although they might have en-
abled the old monarchy better TO
weather the storms that have had to DO
faced since.