English Translation

115.) especially if new forms of democracy are pursued, it would be possible to re-establish dynasties on orphaned tro- tions, because it would not be possible without violence, revival, counterrevolution and new dictatorships, On the contrary, there are trone in Europe, for whose duration after the war certainly hardly anyone wanted or could guarantee - for example, I have the Bulgarian Tron in mind. What would happen to the dynasty there if Hitier were to win ? And what will happen to it until Hitler loses the war ? Neither politically nor psychologically will the situation in Central Europe be favorable for the renewal of any one-size-of-one monarohy. However, I do not believe in the possibility of a renewal of the Habsburg monarchy, although in Europe and also in America the case of this monarchy is often referred to as a fatal error in l9i8, which may be made good if a lasting peace and order is renewed in Mtteleuropa. I take an unsentimental, unprejudiced, objective position on this question. Today, for me, this is not a controversial question at all• Nor is it a question concerning Czechoslovakia. I consider the question of the Habsburgs to be settled. The division of the Habsburg monarchy and the fall of the dynasty was not a work of the peace conference, but of the peoples themselves, who, through the internal revolution and foreign military-isohe action (Chechoslovak and Poinian legions, the South Slavic and the Rumunian ammea), helped very extensively the Entente armies, this pol-