Royal Hungarian Premier Count Etienne Tisza. In July 1914 Tisza was the last member of the Austro-Hungarian Council of Ministers for Common Affairs to oppose war with Serbia.
Count Etienne TiszaConservative and Germanophile Hungarian Statesman who was assassinated Nov. 3, 1918.
"Within the next few days they must, it is true, be prepared to have the people begin complaining again that indecision and delay held sway here [in Vienna]. But that mattered little, if they only knew in Berlin that such was not the case.In conclusion Count Tisza pressed my hand warmly, and said: 'Together we shall now look the future calmly and firmly in the face.'"
On July 14, 1914, Hungarian Premier Tisza approved the decision for war against Serbia that had been approved by all other members of the Austro-Hungarian Council of Ministers for Common Affairs at its July 7 meeting.The excerpt is from a report by Count Heinrich Leopold Tschirschky, German Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, to German Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg. After Tisza left Tschirschky, Austro-Hungarian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Berchtold visited to report Tisza's agreement, which was to Berchtold's 'great pleasure.'The complaints of 'indecision and delay' would come because Austria-Hungary planned to delay delivering its ultimatum to Serbia until after a state visit of French President Poincaré to Russia had ended.
July, 1914; the Outbreak of the First World War; Selected Documents by Imanuel Geiss (Editor), page 115, copyright © 1967 Imanuel Geiss, publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, publication date: 1967
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