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To the left, caricatures of a fallen King Albert of Belgium, Tsar Nicholas of Russia, President Poincare of France, generic (?) caricatures of an English man and a Japanese soldier, Kings Peter of Serbia, and Nikola of Montenegro engaging in a tug of war, the rope being held on the right by a German (in gray) and an Austro-Hungarian soldier. Between the teams and behind the rope stands the diminutive caped figure of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, all hat, mustache, and chin.

To the left, caricatures of a fallen King Albert of Belgium, Tsar Nicholas of Russia, President Poincare of France, generic (?) caricatures of an English man and a Japanese soldier, Kings Peter of Serbia, and Nikola of Montenegro engaging in a tug of war, the rope being held on the right by a German (in gray) and an Austro-Hungarian soldier. Between the teams and behind the rope stands the diminutive caped figure of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, all hat, mustache, and chin.

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Das Europaische Gleichgewicht 1914



The European Equilibrium, 1914

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Friday, July 10, 1914

"Tschirschky: . . . he was still considering what demands could be put that would be wholly impossible for the Serbs to accept.

Kaiser Wilhelm: Evacuate the Sanjac! Then the row would be on at once! Austria must absolutely get that back at once, in order to prevent the union of Serbia and Montenegro and the gaining of the seacoast by the Serbians!"

Quotation Context

Excerpt from a telegram from the German Ambassador in Austria-Hungary Tschirschky to German Secretary of State Jagow on July 10, 1914 with annotations by Kaiser Wilhelm.

Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Berchtold met with his Emperor Franz Joseph on July 9 to discuss the approach to take with Serbia, that is, whether to initiate military action immediately, or after delivering an ultimatum with conditions that Serbia would never accept. Berchtold reported the conversation to Tschirschky the following day. Berchtold had said he would be glad to know what Berlin thought. Tschirschky reported the conversation to Jagow.

The Sanjac (or Sanjak) of Novi Pazar had been an Ottoman administrative area until seized by Serbia and Montenegro from Turkey in the First Balkan War in 1912. Previously lying between the two countries, it gave the two victors a common border. Union with Montenegro would give Serbia access to the Adriatic coast.

Source

July, 1914; the Outbreak of the First World War; Selected Documents by Imanuel Geiss (Editor), 106-108, copyright © 1967 Imanuel Geiss, publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, publication date: 1967

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Serbia, map, Treaty of Bucharest, 1914, July, 1914-07-10