Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-10 | Page 6 | Czernin a Prophet

sivo power, but the "eagle of the west," he feared, mioht prove a greater adversary than tie hear. "fn Germany rrre.it hope U laid in the submarine warfare," lie wrote. "I hold this attitude is deceptive. I do not fur an instant deny the fabulous results of the German heroes of Hue sea. I admit admiringly that the monthly to-tal to-tal of sunken tons is something akin to fable, but I go on record as declaring that tho result expected and predicted by the Germans will not follow." It musf 13 remembered at this timo that German U-boats were at the height of their depredations of the sea. On October Oc-tober 28, 1913, tho German admiralty admitted the failure of the submarine warfare by recalling all the "tigers o the deep" to Kiel and AVilhelmshaven. "I hope that the thought, unfortunately unfor-tunately incorrect, that England could be compelled within a few months to make peace, will loso ground in Per-' liii," wrote Count C'zernin. "Nothing is more dangerous than to believe those things one wants to believe; nothing is moro fatal than not wanting to see the principle of truth, and to succumb to Utopian illusions from which sooner or later thero must come a fearful awakening. awak-ening. ' ' Czcrnin's advice was not heeded, tho "eagle" busied itself. The rest is history; for tho "eagle" was the self same American bird of freedom. CZERNIN A PROPHET. Count Otto Von Czernin, formerly Austrian foreign minister, is shown as a prophet who foreshadowed coming events and the collapse of the Central powers with almost uncanny correctness, correct-ness, according to a letter to the Emperor Em-peror Charles of Austria, written in April of 1917, in which he urged that monarch to "make peace at all hazards or suffer the loss of your throne." Parts of this now famous letter havo lven made public, but the prophetic passages became known only when Dr. lirzljerger presented the full text of the document to the German assembly at Weimar. The Czeruin letter shows, among other things, that the count, alone of all Austrian statesmen, predicted the entrance, two years before, of Iluma-nia Iluma-nia into the war on Ihe side of the allies. al-lies. Tho letter also shows that Czeruin Czer-uin "expected" immediate French, British and Italian offensives and his forecast was boruo out by what happened. hap-pened. Within a fortnight after tho note to Charles had been dispatched, tin; French began the great Soissons-Kheims Soissons-Kheims drivo and tho British had started the battlo of Arras. The Italians, Ital-ians, a few weeks later, plun;ed across (lie Ison.o in the Carso sector, crushing crush-ing the Austrians in their rush. In view of (lit: ri vetsiH to the armies ol' I he cent r;i I powers and on the eve oi' America 'k entry into the war, Czeruin Czer-uin urged tin: emperor to "make another an-other peace proposal and not bo afraid to inal'.e great, eun heavy, sacrifices." Kutiia, ho Lhou,it, had lost its offen-