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Died. Leopold Anton Johan Sigismund Josef Korsinus, Count von Berchtold, Baron von und zu Ungarschitz, Fratting und Pullitz, 79, one of the numerous men individually charged with starting World War I; in Sopron, Hungary. He was Austria-Hungary's Foreign Minister from 1912 to 1915, wrote his Government's ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife in Sarajevo. An Austrian Red Book in 1919 charged that Berchtold used fraud to get Emperor Franz Josef to sign the declaration of war-that he referred to a fictitious Serbian attack, then hastily expunged...
...Hungary he is prepared to be definitely a poor man's king. ... It is slander to say that Otto speaks Hungarian with an Austrian accent. He speaks better Hungarian than Koloman de Kanya, our present Foreign Minister"-who speaks with the West Hungarian accent of his native town Sopron...
...arranged that carloads of the disputed weapons were to go back to Italy by Wiener-Neustadt. Wiener-Neustadt is but 20 mi. from Hungary. If the sealed freight cars containing the rifles were switched in the middle of the night at Wiener-Neustadt to a branch line running to Sopron, Hungary, there unloaded, resealed with forged seals, switched back again and forwarded empty to Italy, there would be 150,000 schillings ($21,000) in it for the Austrian railway union. It would also establish a nice arms smuggling business to the benefit of the Austrian treasury, her railways...