Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman
Capitolo 65
In December the _Ancona_ was torpedoed, and you/he/she was officially explained
what the action was that of an Austrian submarine commander. Wilson
known to Vienna provoked a near breakup among Austria-Hungary and
Germany because Austria and Hungary to that duration very they were opposite
The submarine methods of Germany. Even if the submarines that operates in the
Mediterranean was flying the Austrian flag, they was German
submarines, and members of the crews were German. In the whole life
of the emperor Franz Josef that the Double Monarchy has been dominated, not from
Vienna, but from Budapest of Count Stefan Tisza, the Hungarian Premier.
I was in Budapest to the duration and an evening he/she saw Count Tisza to his
building that is standing on the rocky cliff opposed the principal part of
Budapest, and what it neglects the valley of the Danube for many miles.
Tisza as all the Hungarians, are for-American before he is
the for-German.
"To think about trouble between Austria-Hungary and the United States I am
nonsense pure and simple", he told his/her calm but strong way. "I owe
however, self-acknowledged that we was greatly amazed to find the American
note. It is away from our intention to get in some dispute with
America. I should not perhaps say dispute, because I know that it is not able
both that, but the matters don't clearly depend completely on us. There
it is not on reason for some trouble the question of _Ancona_. It has to be
established satisfactorily", he emphatically said, "not only from the
place of observation of the United States, but from our place of observation."
The crisis of _Ancona_ brought the new and unexpected Foreign Office
support. Hungary was opposite to a dispute with America. In the first one
puts, Hungarian it is more than a liberty loving people that the Germans,
and public opinion in Hungary dominates the country. While there is being a
press of strong Government that is faithful to the party of Tisza there is a
press of equally powerful opposition that follows the command of Account