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- 28 - Souverain would stand too high to engage me in further discussion with a guy like Clemenceau and I look at the whole matter ale finished, that is my unchangeable Entechluss. What do you want now?" 0 z e r n i n: "I'm a stone of learning, if the thing is so, because the opposite case would have been a disaster. Clemen- ceau says the following: "Emperor Karl is the one who, in a self-indulgent letter from the month of Märg 1917, expressed his consent to France's just claims for renegotiation with regard to Alsace Lorraine, the second imperial letter states that the emperor is with his minister of a sense." Of course, one must brand the lie on the categorical one and the telegram to Kai- ser Wilhelm is a very good idea. But I ask your cajesty to wait with telegram and communiqué bee tomorrow. I'm in Vienna tomorrow evening and I've been talking to your neighbor before; I have the fear that your cajesty will have a letter you've written, because otherwise Clemenceau will play a desperate game if he's not able to show the letter he'll be talking about. I should like to ask you to wait for me to arrive, since under no circumstances can we now make mistakes. I will now have to say to Berlin that Clemenceau has logeh, that our answer will be given and please do not do anything under any circumstances until I am not back. If your cajestät wants, igh can go to Baden immediately after my arrival tomorrow night." D e r K a i s e r: "Thank you, I very much agree with everything. In a letter to Princes of Parma is n.i e m a l s e t w a s P o l i t i-s o h e s g e s t a n d e n. Thank you. End." -- (The original recording of this Hugheg conversation is in my possession.) I went back to Vienna the same evening, where a Dementi was killed immediately. At the same time, the emperor telegraphed the following to Emperor Wilhelm: 212