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OPERATIONS IN GALICIA
whom he had just been seeing at work. I could not
make out what was at the back of his mind ; I
understood later on.
Count Sigismund Wielopolski, whom I had seen a
great deal of formerly, was very much upset about the
Polish question. He knew that from various sides the
Emperor was being advised to solve this question
promptly by supplementing the manifesto of the
ex-Generalissimo of the Russian armies by an Imperial
declaration which should decide in a more definite
manner the future regime of Poland. But there were
many controversies on the subject of this regime; and
Wielopolski was expecting to be summoned to G. H.Q.
to submit to the Emperor the point of view and the
desiderata of the Polish party who accepted the
necessity of a sensible union with Russia in the sphere of
foreign policy and of economic interests.
One evening when we were talking about the war,
we naturally spoke of our sons, who had been great
friends during their time at the military college, and
who had got their commissions the same day in the
Infantry of the Guard. He was expecting the Guards
to go into action again, and the thought bound us by
ties of mutual sympathy.
These gentlemen left Stockholm soon after, and all
the interest of the moment was concentrated, as far as
I was concerned, again on the military operations in
Galicia. These were not proceeding as rapidly as at
the beginning; the Germans having thrown large forces
into Volhynia, and stubbornly contested the railway
centre at Kovel. But only a few days had passed and
my attention was again distracted from the events of
the war by a political occurrence of a very serious
nature.
One morning towards the end of July the
representative of our telegraphic agency came to me very
much upset with the news that Sazonoff had resigned
and had been replaced by . . . Sturmer! At first I
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