here to those classes which would receive them in
similar circumstances. That is a measure to which the Germans,
constituted as they are, can have recourse without indiscretion
and without exciting the people. It is not a sensational measure,
and is not necessarily followed by full mobilization, as we have
already seen, but it is none the less significant."

On the same day, July 21, 1914, M. Bienvenu-Martin, Acting Minister
for Foreign Affairs at Paris, notified the French Legations at
London, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Rome that the Berlin Bourse was
extremely weak on the 20th, probably on account of anxiety over the
Serbian question, and that M. Cambon, French Ambassador at Berlin,
had grave reason that Germany would support Austria-Hungary in her
contemplated _demarche_ at Belgrade without seeking to play the part
of mediator.

On the same day, July 21, 1914, Baron Giesl von Gieslingen,
Austro-Hungarian Minister at Belgrade, wrote a long letter to Count
Berchtold, Minister for Foreign Affairs at Vienna, reviewing the
situation. Most of his statements have been given in more moderate
language in the preceding correspondence. He describes how the
relations between Serbia and Austria-Hungary have been "poisoned" by
Serbian national aspirations, due to the great Serbian propaganda
(carried on in Austria-Hungary as well as in Serbia), and to Serbian
success in the Balkan wars. This chauvinism has increased to a
paroxysm, bordering on insanity. The policy is to separate from
Austria-Hungary the southern Slav provinces, and so abolish the Dual
Monarchy as a great power. Bosnia and Herzegovina are expected to
revolt, and the Slav regiments in the Austro-Hungarian army to
mutiny. Out of the ruins will be builded the great Serbian Empire,
and that in the immediate future.

Serbian newspapers without fear of reprimand discuss the decrepitude
of the Dual Monarchy and insult her officials, and even "the exalted
person of our ruler." The press is the educator of the Serbian
people; it promoted the great Serbian propaganda, from which sprang
the crime of Sarajevo. Political parties and governmental policy are
wholly subservient to it. Its accusations that the sudden death of
the Russian Minister, Dr. Hartwig, was due to poison are on the
verge of insanity--the London "Times" called them ravings. The
people, in gratitude for the past, and in anxiety for the future,
outbid one another in servility to Ru