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BY THE MARaUIsE DE FoNrENoy

bN THE MARQCISE DE F0NTENOY.
Since Baron Ladislas Won Hengel-
muller spent some nineteen years at
Washington as Austro- Hungarian
| ambassador, almost as long as his
of the diplomatic corps, ]. ]. Jus
serand. who has just completed his
twentieth year of service as am
| bassador of France in the United
States. the news of the recent mar
riage, at Pesth. OF his daughter.
''AIila" Won Hengelmuller. who spent
| her entire childhood and early girl
hood in Washington and New York. to
| Lord Brougham's only son and heir.
will certainly create some friendly
| interest on this side of the Atlantic.
| For Baroness Won Hangelmuller, VINO was
born as Countess DUNN Borkowska of
| the old Austrian-Polish house of that
name. was general favorite and con-
tributed largely to the gaiety and
social life of the National Capital.
while it has always been felt that
Baron Won Hengelmuller, who spent
some very happy years in England
while connected with the Austrian
! embassy in London, would have dealt
with the difficulties with which his
nation became involved over here
| after 1914 in a more shrewd and
statesmanlike manner than his far
| too amiabie successor, who permit
! ted himself to be made the cats paw
and the dupe of Count Bernstorff.
| In England Baron Won Hengelmuller
is still remembered to this day as
the only man who ever succeeded in
extorting a public apology from the
! late William K. Gladstone. The grand
old man. while leader Of the opposi-
| tion in parliament at Westminster,
fhad, in the course of a discussion
about Austria's policy Of expansion
| in the Balkans, made use of the words
t"Hands off" toward the dual empire,
and had fiercely denounced its meth
DDS of statecraft and of diplomacy.
when, after the liberal victory of
1880, he became prime minister. the
necessity arose of re-establishing
friendly communications between him
and the Austro- Hungarian ambassa :
had naturally ceased all intercourse
with the grand old man after his
historic outburst.
Gladstone was not an easy man TO
convince that he was in the wrong.
In fact there never has been an ENG
fish statesman with such a blind be-
lief in his own infallibility. Yet by
'dint of personal persuasion which In
icluded number of long and most
Interesting tetes-a-tetes between Won
Hengelmuller, then first secretary Of
Emperor Francis Joseph'S embassy
in London. and Gladstone. the latter
gave a public expression of his regret
for his attack upon Austria in the
memorable hands off" speech, with
/ drew his remarks and explained that
his utterances on that occasion were
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apprehension.
I hear that Won Hengelmuller is
publishing his memoirs and pre-
sumably his story about how he in
duced the great Victorian statesman
TO utter a public "peccavi'' will be
!. Baron Won Hengelmuller's new
English son-in-law served through
out the war as a captain of the Cold
strem Guards. has since been con-
nected with the allied reparations
commission In Hungary, has been
married before. and has three chill
dren, including a fourteen-year- old
boy by his first wife, sister OF the
present Lord Abingdon. She divorced
him in 1919. receiving the, custody of
best of terms with his father. who.
in spite of his great wealth, allowed
him to be bankrupted- last. year with
s12O, 600 liabilities and. only $50 Of as
sets. i understand that SINCE, the
captain has sold his reversionary in
terests in the family estates and that
the proceeds of the transaction have
been invested by trustees in his be-
half, so as to secure him an allow
ance of about $4,000.
|; u y II
His father, Lord Brougham, Is not
the son or grandson, but the nephew
of the great Lord Brougham, the
chancellor. and has nothing of the
anee. He is now in his eighty-fifth
year, has been very good locking
man. Ind Was enc Of the efosesr per-