The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . t a negative reply from Serbia will befollowed on Austrias part by an immediate declaration ofwar and military operations. Any adjournment of militaryoperations would be considered here as very dangerous onaccount of intervention by other powers. Austria in thisdispatch was counseled with the greatest insistence to passimmediately to action and thus put the world in face ofan accomplished fact. The second dispatch, marked 82 AUSTRIA AND SERBIA strictly
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . t a negative reply from Serbia will befollowed on Austrias part by an immediate declaration ofwar and military operations. Any adjournment of militaryoperations would be considered here as very dangerous onaccount of intervention by other powers. Austria in thisdispatch was counseled with the greatest insistence to passimmediately to action and thus put the world in face ofan accomplished fact. The second dispatch, marked 82 AUSTRIA AND SERBIA strictly secret/ and dated July 27, 1914, said: TheSecretary of State has just declared to me [that is, theAustrian Ambassador to Berlin] positively, but under theseal of most strict secrecy, that very soon eventual proposi-tions of mediation from England will be brought to theknowledge of your Excellency. The German Governmentassures me in the most convincing manner, that it in no wayidentifies itself with these propositions, that it is absolutelyagainst their being taken into consideration. Germanys danger at that time, as she probably saw it,. WAR NEWS IN BERLINA crowd cheering after the declaration of war by Austria against Serbia was to see Russia dominant in the Bialkans and threateningher Berlin-to-Bagdad dreams, with Austria, her one sureally, slowly being destroyed by internal racial rivalriesencouraged, if not backed by, Russia. The question ofworld peace undoubtedly turned in part on whether Russiawould resign her role as protector—perhaps as an aggressiveprotector—of Serbia. So long as she declined to do that,war between Austria^ and Russia, sooner or later, wasprobably inevitable, lit was strange indeed that Germandiplomacy, which was advised as early as April, 1913, of 83 OUTBREAK AND CAUSES Austrias purpose, had been unable, after a whole year, toprevent a coalition of all the other Great Powers againsther and her ally, so that after the inevitable blow againstthe Gre
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