Excerpt from The World War, Who Is to Blame?: A Reply to Professor Haeckel and Dr. Paul Carus During the forty-eight hours in which Serbia was to mend her ways Great Britain made three attempts at peace, joining with Russia in a request for exten sion of the time-limit, and suggesting that Germany should urge this request on the Austrian Govern ment. Berlin agreed only to pass on the message. Sir Edward Grey on the 2sth hoped that Germany would persuade Austria to accept the Serbian reply. Again Berlin merely undertook to ...
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Excerpt from The World War, Who Is to Blame?: A Reply to Professor Haeckel and Dr. Paul Carus During the forty-eight hours in which Serbia was to mend her ways Great Britain made three attempts at peace, joining with Russia in a request for exten sion of the time-limit, and suggesting that Germany should urge this request on the Austrian Govern ment. Berlin agreed only to pass on the message. Sir Edward Grey on the 2sth hoped that Germany would persuade Austria to accept the Serbian reply. Again Berlin merely undertook to pass on this hope to the German Ambassador at Vienna. Sir Edward urged France, Germany, Russia, and Italy to work together in favour of conciliation. France, Russia, and Italy agreed to do so. Germany had no objection if relations between Austria and Russia became threatening. The British Ambassador at Vienna reported that the tone of the Austrian press left the impression that a settlement was not desired, and that he considered the Austrian demands on Serbia were so drawn up as to make war inevit able. Sir Edward Grey then proposed a conference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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