English Translation

- testch ocehaeis lcill llicun has been fully understood after the break. It is the political discussion of the prince with his mother the Duchess of Parma in January 17, a first political letter of the Kaisèr to the prince, and the rendezvous of the Prince with a "empire envoy" (probably the Rittmeier Count Erdödy) at which the envoys in the name of the emperor declared that the return of Alsace-Lothringen to Francey was acceptable as a fundamental condition of the Ctg peace. III. Since, as warmed up, I did not know this prehistory in Kärz 17 eo, I had understood the first visit of the prince dme as the beginning of an Acti'on and did not let a word of the emperor or the prince know that this was not the case. Apparently His Majesty had told the prince that I did not know about this history and asked him to negotiate with me accordingly. ( soon after my appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs, I had expressed the desire that every written and oral contact between the foreign and Austrian Parliaments should be subjected to ministerial control - a postulate which the emperor rejected with the greening: "He is responsible for the fact that every foreign minister has been completely unpolitical since) Kontabt The French revelations themselves explain that the point I had made during this visit had been completely unsatisfactory, but at the same time, always after these revelations, Prince Sixtus took along with him a letter from the emperor, which recently promised Alsace-Lothringen to France, a contradiction between the imperial and ministerial views, which the primacy have m u s s that I also have of this 195