Correspondence between Czernin and various persons in matters of honourCzernin- Sternberg

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English Translation

Secret supplement. The stupidest of all angriffe Sternbergs is the one in the ad. To whom he vindicated a crime by Rudolf Fürst Kineky, according to supplement II of this emperor Charles addressed to Krenprinz Wilhelm, to have published (see supplement my book "Im Weltkriege" page No.).For months, the Foreign Affairs Aemter of Vienna and Berlin have been publishing in the most tendentious and hateful form secret acts to discredit the "Old Regime". In contrast to these efforts, the officials of the old regime have not only published the right, but also the pliaht, which defends the monarchic principle and the old regimes. Every reasonable person who reads the letter of Emperor Charles to the Kromprinaen,muus and will say to himself that this statement of the emperor's sincere love for peace presents the most brilliant testimony. If Sternberg is to say here that this is true, however, the letter contains a hidden tip against Emperor Wilhelm, so this accusation is nock stupider.l.)Isn't the worst bpitze against Emperor William kept in it and 2.) I allow myself to remember what German memoir writers, unlike Austrian, publish about the faded monarchs (see the book of Cramons on Emperor Charles, and that of the Prussian war minister Stein, who tells me that Emperor Karl "has been bribed with foreign money"). Finally, I allow myself the following official secret, in the confidence that it will remain buried in the castle of the honourable Comité. 311