ssia. They despise
Austria-Hungary as powerless, for internal and external reasons. The
serious words of our statesmen are regarded as "bluff."

"This picture leads up to the conclusion that a reckoning with
Serbia, a war for the position of the [Dual] Monarchy as a great
power, even for its existence as such, cannot be permanently
avoided.

"If we delay in clearing up our relations with Serbia we shall
share the responsibility for the difficulties and the unfavorable
situation in any future war which must, however, sooner or later
be carried through....

"Should we therefore ... put forward far-reaching requirements
joined to effective control--for this alone could clear the
Augean stable of great Serbian intrigues--then all possible
consequences must be considered, and from the beginning there
must be a strong and firm determination to carry through the
matter to the end.

"Half measures, the presentation of demands, followed by long
discussions and ending only in an unsound compromise, would be
the hardest blow which could be directed against
Austria-Hungary's reputation in Serbia and her position in
Europe."

On July 22, 1914, Sir Horace Rumbold, British Charge d'Affaires at
Berlin, telegraphed to Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of Foreign Affairs
at London, that he had had an interview with the German Secretary of
State, Herr von Jagow, who insisted that the question at issue
between Serbia and Austria-Hungary was for these alone to settle,
without interference from outside, and said that it was inadvisable
for the German Government to approach the Austro-Hungarian
Government on the matter. The German Secretary had frequently
emphasized to the Serbian Charge d'Affaires at Berlin, M.
Yovanovitch, that Austro-Serbian relations should be put on a proper
footing. He thought that Austria had acted toward Serbia with great
forbearance.

On the same day, July 22, 1914, M. Bienvenu-Martin, Acting Minister
for Foreign Affairs at Paris, notified the foreign French legations
of the information in M. Cambon's report of the 21st, and said that
the Marquis di San Giuliano, Prime Minister at Rome, was interceding
with Austria-Hungary that nothing impracticable be demanded of
Serbia; thus, that the dissolution of the Narodna Odbrana be
required, and not a judicial inquiry into the causes of the crime of
Sarajevo. Evidently the Cabin