He was a great stickler for equality in making appointments to foreign diplomatic posts, but I could not pay much heed to that.

If I considered the Austrian X better fitted for the post of ambassador than the Hungarian Y, I selected him in spite of eventual disagreement.
This trait in the Hungarian, though legally well founded, was unbearable and not to be maintained in war, and led to various disputes between Tisza and myself; and now that he is dead, these scenes leave me only a feeling of the deepest regret for many a hasty word that escaped me.

We afterwards made a compromise.

Tisza promised never to interfere except in cases of the greatest urgency, and I promised to take no important step without his approval.

Soon after this arrangement he was dismissed by the Emperor for very different reasons.
I greatly regretted his dismissal, in spite of the difficulties he had caused me.