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whole Serbian nation and on Serbia, who can suffer only harm from
such acts....

"Please ... use all available channels in order to put an end as
soon as possible to the anti-Serbian campaign in the European
press."

On the same day (July 1, 1914), Herr Jehlitschka, Austrian Consul
General to Turkey, wrote from Uskub, in European Turkey, to Count
Berchtold, Minister of Foreign Affairs at Vienna, of the actions at
Prestina on the 525th anniversary of the battle of the Amselfeld
(1389), for the first time officially celebrated as the "Festival of
the Liberation" of the Serbian nation, and carefully prepared to
make it an especially solemn and magnificent demonstration of
Serbian nationality.

"The propaganda connected with this at the same time extended to
Croatia, Dalmatia, and Bosnia, but especially to Hungary; those
who took part in it received free passes on the Serbian state
railways; food and lodging at low prices, maintenance by public
bodies, etc., were promised....

"The various speeches ... dealt ... with the well-known theme of
the union of all Serbia and the 'liberation of our brethren in
bondage' beyond the Danube and the Save, even as far as Bosnia
and Dalmatia.

"When, during the course of the evening, the news of the horrible
crime of which Sarajevo had been the scene was circulated, the
feeling which animated the fanatical crowd was, to judge by the
numerous expressions of applause reported to me by authorities in
whom I have absolute confidence, one that I can only characterize
as inhuman.

"In view of this attitude of the population, which was also
displayed at Uskub, all attempts of the Serbian press to divest
Serbia of the moral responsibility for a deed which was received
by a representative gathering with such unvarnished satisfaction
collapse miserably."

On July 2, 1914, M. Dumaine, French Ambassador at Vienna, reported
to M. Viviani, Prime Minister in Paris, the resentment against
Serbia in Austrian military circles and by those persons opposed to
Serbia's maintenance of the position she had acquired in the
Balkans. If the Serbian Government refused as intolerable to its
dignity the demand of Austria-Hungary that the Serbian Government
investigate into the origin of the archduke's assassination, he
feared that this would furnish Austria-Hungary a ground for res