English Translation

5 -7- B. rejected the various offers of Prof. Kossuth, since he had no time for long meetings on a working basis. Prof. K. then explained that Minister Bertsch could quietly bring his secretary with him and dictate her during the meetings. When Minister Bertsh rejected this proposal with surprise, Prof. Kossuth admits that many of his clients and also the present Pope, whom he had still painted as a nuncio to Berlin, had completed their agenda during the meetings. On the other hand, politically less interesting people are not asked by Prof. Kossuthen to hold long meetings, but merely photographed and studied during a tea. On the basis of the photograph and the impression gained, the portraits are made. Confidentially, Frof. Kossuth's relations with the former German envoy in Lisbon, Baron v. H o i n i n g e n. Huene, who is currently in Constance a. Bodensee in the "island hotel" became known. The German envoy in Albania, Count of Schulenburg, probably died in prison, was also one of Kossuth's good acquaintances. Prof. K. to members of the Bohemian Moravian nobility, Even though they are mostly artistic clients, who only occasionally appear in his house and seem to have no closer personal ties with him, shows precisely the more frequently at K. a conspicuous congruence of political opinions and views. As far as can be seen from the documents available here, these are almost all persons whose reactionary and legitimistic attitude is often demonstrated and who, as is emphasized by relatively positive colleagues, feel addressed by the de-faitist and politically decadent atmosphere at K.. They are members of that social class, at which the total war seems to have passed almost without trace and whose almost peaceful appearance is only clouded by some convocations to the Wehrmacht. If e.g. Erwein Graf N o s t i t Z - Rineck ( Annex 6 ) geb. 17.7.1898 in Falkenau, living in Mieschitz near Prague, as if from a recorded telegram change between him and his -8