English Translation

-7- Guarantees against the determination of the London Conference and declares in point 3) that we shall be able to approach the meetings with uneerer Bundesgenossen upon receipt of these provisions. To keep peace from the Wunecheeineseparat ateht dn der Hote no less than TOO The emperor originally wanted to keep secret the whole effort before Deutachland. On my counter-examination g- taxk he allowed me to hold the German Reichananzler, but he strongly refused to mention the name of the negotiators. Following a telegraphic invitation from me, Mr. von Bethmann- Hollweg appeared in Vienna, where I informed him in general form about what had been done and that I was prevented by a imperial ban, that I would not be able to give him the names of the subordinates.Ee, however, is subject to no doubt that the Chancellor of the Reich has guessed them. So Prince Sixtus took this writing with him to my Paris. But at the same time, and without my knowledge, he received a new letter from the emperor, in which His Majesty wièder speaks of an Italian peace offering in which he reduces his claims "on the Tyrolean Italian tongue" and entrusts the Count Erdödy * in the - the Prince - to clearly lay the faces of His Najestät and the Miniater ". This letter handed over - to Franz. According to revelations - His cajesty seems to be direct to the prince and explained in it that the Rittmeister Count Erdëdy was able to make the prince clear to the nobility, and this after His Majesty himself negotiates during hours with the prince, and even though the responsible Kinister of the Foreigner had never had the opportunity to apologise about politics with the count Erdödy, and his role always only in 198