1919I] One of Earth's Noblemen 



After the Armistice I wrote him, enclosing some 

 of my current articles in Sunset, concerning which I 

 received the following answer in English: 



Salzburg, Austria, 

 October 18, 19 19 



. . . It is a great comfort for me that you too do not approve 

 the Treaty of St. Germain in its whole purport. Indeed, it is 

 too hard a chastisement for our guilt for having let Germany 

 subdue us. 



I entirely concur with your appreciation of the League of 

 Nations. I have published a little book about it in French, 

 "Le maintien de la paix" ^ (Geneve), and I hope that my greater 

 book, published by the Nobel Institute at Kristiania, "Das 

 Volkerrecht nach dem Kriege," "^ shall come out soon in a 

 French translation and in a revised state. The German edition 

 had been sent to you in 191 8, but I am afraid you have not got 

 it, like many others to whom it had been sent during the war. 



You know probably that I was for a short time — too late! — 

 at the head of the Austrian government, that I, together with 

 Andrassy, have applied for the Armistice and I have signed the 

 manifesto of abdication of our Emperor. Then I was for some 

 time in Switzerland and at St. Germain. Now I live again at 

 Salzburg, whither I removed during the war from Vienna. That 

 our situation, economical, financial, and political, is desperate, 

 you know from the papers. The state and almost all its citizens 

 — except a few thousand war profiteers and a few hundred 

 aristocrats and Jewish bankers — are beggars. We do not know 

 how to live next year. Buying books is out of the question, 

 since we are not sure whether we can buy our food! Our only 

 hope is the "commission de reparations" but this depends from 

 the constitution of the society of Nations. Therefore we look 

 with anxiety toward your Senate. At the American Legation 

 at Berne I found the best disposition for Austria, but nobody 

 dares to help us in fact. 



Before my answer reached Salzburg the great 

 jurist had passed away, leaving wife and daughter in 



1 "The Maintenance of Peace." 2 "International Law after the War." 



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