As news continued to spread from Graz to every corner of Europe, the Vienna Affairs Summit gradually turned into a farce in people's minds.
Yet two noteworthy things still happened at the summit.
First, the Bavarian envoy proposed sending 15,000 troops to help the Holy Roman Emperor suppress the rebellion, covering the military expenses themselves. However, they could not do so in the name of the Imperial Army, but rather as "the Kingdom of Bavaria providing whatever aid it could to an equal neighboring state."
After Count Waldersee briefly reported this to the Emperor, the proposal was rejected without surprise.
The Bavarian envoy then immediately left the meeting and returned to Munich.
Second, Cologne's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs suddenly declared that Austria's National Assembly must be treated fairly. Otherwise, Cologne would lodge its strongest protest with the empire and reserved the right to take whatever necessary measures it saw fit.
This happened because Count Waltherhausen, Austria's newly appointed State Minister, had declared all supporters of the National Assembly guilty of treason and ordered the Graz High Court to try them in absentia.
Naturally, the Holy Roman Emperor paid no heed to the Cologne delegation's stance. Deputy Minister Jagger therefore left Graz on the third day of the conference as well. The United Kingdom's Minister of Foreign Affairs had departed without saying goodbye the day before—he simply could not endure Mainz and the other nations endlessly "harassing" him over the South American war. The 80,000 Pound Sterling loan Pitt the Younger had originally intended to offer the Holy Roman Emperor consequently came to nothing as well.
Thus, by the fifth day of the conference, Count Waldersee had already concluded that no valuable results could possibly emerge, and ended the summit ahead of schedule.
By then, among all of Germany, only