Correspondence in the matters of honourCzernin-Polzer-Hoditz and Czernine- Sternberg

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English Translation

Vienna, sm 5. liai 1924 I An sr. Excellency HEM 5. But not only to the club management, no, to all honored, honored members I will turn.To Bich for the time being your carrier of old Austrian honor shall be my reputation, to you always kai- Sertreue officers. See here a k.u.k. Rittmeister, a brave front fighter and what is more, a knightly warrior for the honor of Habsburg and his noble Franen IWein Waffenrock is called Khre and Zhre every thread that has woven him beside it but see a man in general rock. He, too, wears a dress of honor;but not honor,not merit for the oester-rich flags.From foreign fedars it is merely patched up,from those bloody rags of cloth that our brave Isonzo warriors left behind in the storm and barbed wire.This man has dishonored his general skirt.He is one of those who, through their defaitis-mus mutant red criminals, has pushed the dagger into his hand. With which our magnificent victory front was supposed to be stabbed and shamefully murdered.He degraded his coat of arms, broke his oath of office, betrayed his emperor. - Oesterreich's officers above all, and besides Bich Oester Reich's once proud nobility, your former supporters of the Empire, your beloved ambassadors and ministers, knights the Order of the Golden Fleece, your k.u.k.Kämmerer and Secret Rate, your high and highest court magistrates all, remembers book, that if at the time of the monarchy one of us would have done even a tenth of what that Former ministers, later Varräter and extortioners, and he would have succeeded in avoiding the well-deserved gallows, he would certainly have been humiliatingly cashed out as an officer, undressed all orders and ehrans, and anyone who would have handed him his hand, or continued to be in a club with him, even though the officer's charge would have been declared lossy and forfeited to him. Same to you that if a club ./. 6 324