OttokarCzernin, File Compilation of the "Letter-Affaire" 1917 and 1918 [Sixtus-Affere]

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English Translation

- 32 - Having discussed my thoughts in this way, I will ask you to speak back to Kir with the two casks, for the time being the opinion of France and England, in order to prepare the terrain for an agreement, to be misguided on this round-up and to lead to the satisfaction of all. I hope that from both sides we will soon be able to set the mark of so many billions of Menachen and so many families in sorrow and fear, I ask You to believe in my lively and fraternal act. Karl." Count Czernin in his note of 3rd d. The letter, shown to me by the Emperor, was identical with Clemenceau's text, except for the three moments mentioned: 1) no commission to the French Government 2.) no mention of Belgium, and 3) by Alsace-Lothringen the opposite of the Clementsu Declaration. Our Dementi therefore read: "The letter of His Royal Apostolic Majesty, published by the French Prime Minister in his commu- niguée of April 2, is falsified. Above all, let it be said that under the "personality standing in the range far above the misister of the external", which, as stated in the official statement of the 7th General Assembly, is the subject of a declaration of the Holy See. In the spring of 1917, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon had to be understood and condemned, as Prince Sixtu was involved in the preparation of a rapprochement of the warring states in the spring 1917. Kinisterium of the exterior a l l e r h 6 c h s t e 246