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Austro-Hungarian government and the House of Habsburg.

The facts presented in that article beginning with the open breach
between Franz Joseph and the Archduke on his marriage to Sophie Chotek;
the _entente_ between Kaiser and Archduke at Eckartzau and Potsdam; the
seizure of the Archduke's papers by the Austrian government after the
assassination; the instructions to the Sarajevo police from the military
authorities of Austria-Hungary to make no special arrangements for the
Archduke's protection; the fact that no evidence has ever been adduced
proving the complicity of the Serbian government; the funeral of the
Archduke and Duchess, at which no wreaths were sent by Emperor Franz
Joseph, by the Archduke's sister, or any member of the Austro-Hungarian
Imperial Family; the inadequacy of the formal arrangements for burial
and the obvious intention of the Court authorities to pay as little
honor as possible to the dead; the exclamation of the Kaiser, during
Kiel week when the news of the assassination was brought to him, "Now I
must begin all over again":--these facts must be considered as
circumstantial evidence of the most positive sort that the relations
between Archduke and Kaiser had been looked on with disfavor and
suspicion by the Imperial Family of Austria. What actually happened at
Konopisht of course will never be known, but there is strong presumptive
evidence that a pact of the character suggested in this story was made
in the rose garden of the castle and that Von Tirpitz was a witness to
it.

Whatever the police records show with regard to Cabrinovitz and Prinzep,
the former, who threw the bomb, the latter who did the killing, no
successful effort has been made to show that they were employed by the
Serbian government, nor is it probable that Serbia would have promoted a
plot which would give Austria Hungary a pretext for assailing her, a
pretext that Austria Hungary had already sought. The story of the
beginnings of the Great War has shown how she found it.

In the light of the ascertained facts concerning the production of
anti-Serbian forgeries employed by Austria during the annexation
crises of 1908-9, and exposed during the Friedjung trial of
December, 1909, it certainly would not be beyond the power of
Austro-Hungarian Secret Service agents to cook up a plot at
Belgrade or Sarajevo, were it considered desirable, for reasons of
Imperial policy, either to "remove" o