The New Europe/Volume 7/Number 84/Count Czernin as a German Candidate
Count Czernin as a German Candidate
In view of the persistent attempts of our pacifist press to represent Count Czernin as a “Slav” and therefore as the advocate of conciliation among the Austro-Hungarian races, it may be interesting to quote the proposal of the Prager Tagblatt, the organ of the German Liberals in Bohemia. “It would be an excellent thing,” this paper writes on 30 April, “if the Germans of Austria could persuade Count Czernin to remain in political life in some kind of capacity. He has his mandate for the Herrenhaus, but at the next election he could win any German popular mandate. With his popularity he might succeed in making himself the leader of a new great German party. Mirabeau too had the rank of Count, and like him, Count Czernin does not absolutely require election . . . Count Czernin, the most outstanding personality among Austrian statesmen in recent years, will now be able to show us if he is a politician or a real statesman.”
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