The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 2, 1919, Page 13

DLLAPSE OF RUSSIA | BROUGHT HUN CRISIS MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” Publiahed ‘The Star ¢ Copyrighted, 1914, righted in Great Britain by by Messrs. feix and Bertie im All rights reserved for ¥ Wien gountrion On November 21, 1916, Bm Francis Joseph passed to ie long rest, The cohesion of the peoples of the double mon: had depended on him. He Rot, it Is true, succeeded in yey new life to the monarehy, 4" the advisers whom he chose Were not strong enough for the task. He was a loyal friend of | the alliance, even if he never for Got 1966, when Prussia and Aus Atria had fought for hegemony in Germany, (By this campaign Prussia seized the leadership of the German states and paved the way for the war with lrance and the formation of the German om: pire) At the beginning of April, 1916, S0th anniversary of Field Marshal von Hindenburg's entry the service was brated at T made a short specch that oceasion, and chanced to tion, without adding any com it, that the field marshal, tn first year of his service, had part in the campaign of My speech had hardty been re when I received a letter Chancellor yon Bethmann, the effect that offense had been ‘caused In Vienna by my refer te the campaign of 1866, me to prevent it being but that was already oa ‘was as much surprised by tude of the Vienna court the letter from Bertin. The campaign, it appears, had Geath was an irreparable loss || murdered heir, the Archduke Ferdinand (whose assassina @t Sarajevo was made the ex for the ultimatum to Serbia caused the war), was not the Of action he was commonly held Be. Indeed, he was naturally ting and irresolute, and by no friendly to Germany, Our Made great efforts to turn archduke and his wife to ly attitude to us His death & tragedy, and its results disas- they have brought about for} after four years of war, the that Ruasia, the real author of tragedy, intended; true, Russia Fuimed herself in the process, D PARDON ; is the Emperor Charles in , 1914, as archduke. He the strong impression of youth- At the beginning of Noverm- 1916, I saw him again. He had up become more manly Md spoke well on military subjects fhe burden of his new and high was, however, to become tov for him. 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Eric Von Lundendorff mt with the MeClure Newspaper ws Hotland, Russi blockade against Austria, It was characteristic of him that he pardoned the Gaech leaders who bad openly worked against the mon arehy; hia fear of the Caech move vent and the whole weaknous of the vernment and th monarchy were endered notorious by this conduct r uly COMfequence Was an en. couragement of the separatist ten |dencies among the non-German peo | ples, and grave mistrust among his |Germans, who stood firm in thelr loyalty to thelr imperial house. | WENT TOO FAR | WItH TUS | The Emperor Charles, altho by no means a convinced supporter of the! held firmly to Germany. He | wanted peace, but im his anxiety to Jachiove it he went too far in hin let }ters to his brotherinlaw, Prince | Sixtus The Emperor Charles attached |@reat importance to his position as supreme commander of the Austro- Hungarian army, At hie wish the} stipulations governing the supreme command of the forces of the quad ruple alli were altered and somewhat weakened, Without being | truly soldierly, he wanted to give hin best to his army, | ‘The Empress Zita, who had great jinfluence over ber husband, had | Strong political opinions. She was | unfortunately wholly unfriendly to and in the hands ef priests who were not well disposed to Ger m: alliance, | The minister for foreign affairs | was Count Czernin, a man of clever } ness and wide experience, an edu | jeated and amiable personality, and far above the Withelmstrasse, In the main, he pursued the same path Jam the chancellor in Berlin. He de | sired peace, but only hand in hand| |with Germany, He must be given |the tribute of praise that he was| | loyal | At the same time he held earnest y and with uncommon ability the brief for the double monarehy. In | deating with his imperial master he | showed calmness and firmness. | Nevertheless, he gave his author lity to the pardon to the Czechs, and [to the emperor's uncertain policy | towards the subject peoples. He re mained in office, altho he gid not approve of the pardon, altho this step, symptom as ft of the impending collapse of double | the a | monarchy, was bound to make peace |more difficult and to strengthen) the hopes of the entente for vic t ! NO DICTATOR, | Hr OFTEN SAID | Personally I had a great liking for the count and took no little pleasure | | im his conversation, but he unfortu- | nately was too ready te repeat the Witheimstrasse about my | “dictatorship.” I often explained to | him how unfounded his supposition | | Was. | Austriatiungary was constantly j@iscussing the early conclusion of peace, Thus, about the middie of April (917) the Emperor Charles, in a letter addressed to his majesty, | |dealt with the possibility of having | |to make great sacrifices In order to J obtain it. The dangers of an interna-| [tional revolution were described in lareat detail and the urgent need for wach @ peace deducted from it These and similar ietters were handed by his majesty to the im perial chancellor to answer, The field marshal and I had to comment upon them from the military point of view, and the chief of the naval staff from the @aval. Of course, we sak, as in duty bound, what we thought was right; how our com | ments were made use of wan the business of the imperial chancellor In this instance his ideas coincided with ours, and with those of the chief of the naval staff. Early in May the chancellor re- plied to the effect that, considering the great hopes the entente had at the moment, both of the success of their offensive and of the re-estab- lishment of Russia, our efforts would be doomed to absolute failure if we made our readiness for peace too obvious. It would merely make the central powers appear hopelens- ly exhausted and thereby mike the enemy intensify his efforts. At the moment peace was only obtainable by submitting to the will of our mies, but that kind of peace the! péople would neither understand: nor permit, HOPES PINNED | ON RUSSIA Conditions in Russia had so far |@veloped favorably to us. In that Jecountry the demand for peace was | becoming more and more insistent |Our difficult task was to follow the process of development and disinte Jaration in Russia with the closest jattention, hasten it if we could, and deal with any approaches from that quarter in such a way that actual |peate negotiations might follow Possibly such negotiations might then become the prelude of a general peace. This constituted the official reply }to the Emperor Charles’ letter On many other o ions Count Czernin pressed for peace. He con- tinued to advocate the surrender of German territory to France, but he was never able to say whether the entente was inclined for peace, or whether any tangible method of at- taining it had presented itself. Count Czernin would surely have told us if he had discovered it, In his spegch of December WM, 1918, he discugsed the questions of war and peace at great length; pre- sumably merely in order to show that he had seen disaster coming. ‘That is an unproductive occupat! Peasimists are always clever p ple. When the evil day arrives they are gaped at for their wisdom. The mob offers them tncense-—and to it self at the same time, The mob has always anticipated disaster, If it does not eome then the pessimists and the mob are more satisfied than ever. So they both enjoy them- selves, anyhow. “THE MOB LACKS JUDGMENT" Men of action not so fortun- ate; they are only right when they are successful. Then the mob cheers them. But if they are not suceess- ful or, worse, meet with disaster, the same mob stones them. Pessi- mists and the mob do not ask what they themselves, or the men of action, have done to avert disaster. | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Hum, | Otuieve THAT Tom Pinned a HELEN Thus IM GETTING OUT OF DATE - She SHOULD HAVE SEAL LAON 1S TRYING "TO fuer were me! ru. SAN SHE'S Some sweet PATooTE AT THAT WEDLOCKED — WELLANBLL © Don my Sor +A SUID OF A LAD LIME TWAT HANDICADDED 1A LIRE WITH A CRYTCHs MY WEARY GOES OUT To CAN Romp HAT ING Me THe omen Once OVER. Poor, Tender- " STREET WHEN | SAW WALL WE DPRFORMBD AND You AND DAY LIKE ALL CALDREN © 3 WAVE A NEW KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES IT LOOKS LIKE A HARD WINTER AND BEING AS 1 HAVE A DELICATE CONSTITUTION I THINK T'LL PROPOSE To MR. M*Ginis’ HELLO HAA! HOWAYUH — eu. 1 DONT SEE ANY NATIVE Look AT DwGcHTER! i @& Good DING BOYS COMING OUT TO MEET KY SURF BOARD BOAT. NE, Come FRort AN OLD Family, L DANCE WELL, AMD AT TALENTED IN EVERY Way! LAr WHAT YoU CALL CATCH: TLL Do may Ow Con DiVING AN' SHOW "EM A ONAPPY pyres The mob lacks judgment and can | %- not be expected to ask, But I am surprised to find Count Czernin behaving in the same way Has he really fairly told himself and the world what he actually did, in the situation in whieh he found himself, to avoid losing the war, and #0 save his own and his allies’ countries from disaster and shame? Unfortunately Gount Czernin omitted to inform us earlier of those h did not come to my until | read his He said: “On several occasions our representatives got into touch with those of the entente, but unfortu- nately these feelers never got to the stage of concrete proposals. We fre quently had the impression that we should be able to make a separate peace without Germany, but we | were never informed of the definite conditions on which Germany, her side, might have peace. PUTS BLAME ON ENTENTE “Above all, we were never told that Germany would be allowed to retain the possessions she held be fore the war. As the en- tente never declared their willing: ness to negotiate with a Germany on ech. | | | | the nilitary forces of Ger: many marked the summer of 17. Ladendorff, always de | manding re power to drill | the people, and Bethmann-Holl- | weg, always endeavoring to | | prevent the enero the “dictatorship, | Ludendorff was so cused and so often clashed more and more, dendorff tomorrow takes | this phase of Germany's part | | in the w | | , a —x| ] often ac | denied, Lu up that had no desire for conquest, but | kept, reiterating their desire to de stro Germany, we wore foreed into a defensive war on Germany's be: | half and our role in Berlin was| made amazingly difficult.” ‘These words, if spoken earlier, would have silenced all our talk about a peace of reconciliation, and have revived the warlike spirit and 80 brought blessing to our people, Count Czernin, however, held his peace, and so took on himself an erormous responsibility. 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