The announcement of personnel appointments for the special task force instantly caused a sensation. The domestic anti-Semitic public was satisfied—the people appointed were all hardliners.
Count Wites, as head of the task force, had publicly demanded at a recent press conference that the courts severely punish the criminals. He certainly would not go easy on them.
The Jewish capitalist forces that had narrowly escaped disaster were satisfied as well. Though they had never contacted them directly, everyone vaguely knew that these were their own people.
Even Ledes, who had been responsible for acting as the intermediary, breathed a sigh of relief. Since their own people were handling the investigation, the matter would surely be over soon.
The only thing he found strange was that there seemed to be too many of their own people in the investigation team. Officials from many unrelated departments had also been transferred in, which did not fit the Vienna Government's usual style of administration.
Since he could not figure it out, he could not be bothered to keep thinking about it. He could only attribute it to the big shots behind them being powerful enough to influence the Vienna Government's decisions.
There was logic to that judgment. Relationships among the nobility were tangled and intricate; relatives were everywhere.
As long as one was willing to lower one's stature and ask for favors, so long as no conflict of interests was involved, one could generally achieve one's goal.
All parties were satisfied—except for the few people directly involved, who were miserable.
Perhaps when they had first received their appointments, they had felt a flicker of surprise and delight. But after seeing their colleagues in the investigation team, none of them could remain happy.
If one or two people had entered the task force, it might have