Evening star., 1923-02-28
New President of the French Senate
Admirably Equipped for Difficult Job

ward, declined promotion to the rank
of minister plenipotentiary in another
capita! and remained at Vienna as
e0dnselGr eo1i, h3r dof., Of the British embassy
tropolis, where his obsequies were at.
tended by well-nigh every member of
the .reigning house of Hapsburg. :
After Milbanke's death Archduke
speaking. He became involved in ali
sorts of scrapes, thanks to evil COM
partnership, and finally became in
volved in so painful scandal that
his eldest brother, Emperor Francis
Joseph, caused him to be interned as
irresponsible in the beautiful chateau
OF Kleshetm, near Salzburg, where he
spent the remainder of his days.
strictly guarded, in a sort Of gilded
captivity: his palace in Vienna being
Klesheim.
1t is necessary to enter into these
particulars in order to explain how it
comes that documents of extraordi-
nary Importance have quite recently
been found at Castle Klesheim, where
the late archduke passed away in a
state of senile imbecility in January.
1919-that, is to say. just after the
overthrow of the Hapsburg monar-
chy, and when everything in the dual
empire was in a condition of chaos
and confusion.
The documents discovered there
and which have fallen into hands OF
people more intent upon making
money than of preserving the most
sacred and most intimate condolences
of imperial personages, consist of
nothing less than the collection of all
| the confidential letters which Empe-
FOR Francis Joseph addressed day by
! day to his mother from the very mo-
ment of his accession to the throne ir
1S4s until the day Of her death in
1872.
A very masterful, ambitious and
| clever woman, Archduchess Sophia's
influence over him remained un-
bounded. Indeed, it was because of
its dominant character that the mar
| ried life of his beautiful consort was
so unhappy, almost from the very out
set, that it illuminated in an estrange-
| ment, which was but partially healed
by their community Of grief over the
shocking death Of their only son.
Crown Prince Rudolph, at Meyerlinx
| in January, 1889. His mother domi-
mated the entire = life of Emperor
| Francis Joseph during the first
Itwenty-feur years of his reign. He
did nothing without her approval
consulted her about~xverything, and
made his young empress feel that.
while she was an ornament to his
court. she had no part in the direc-
| tion Of his policies or in the admins
| Il alton of his dominions, nor even in
I the state secrets of his government
and of his house. He never did any,
thing throughout all that near quar-
ter Of a century without making =
daily report thereof to his mother.
couched In the most intimate and un-
The publication Of this amazing COLI
| lection of letters, which are being
printed without. any revision or
| emendation, bids fair to create q
worldwide sensation and to constt-
tute a wonderful contribution to the
history of an era which witnessed the
rise and fall of the empire of Napo-
| leon III, the birth Of Bismarckian Ger
many and of united Italy, the brief
existence of the Mexican empire ana
the restoration Of Hungary into +
| separate sovereign state under TN
rule of the Hapsbnrgs $50, - -, III