nger of delay, which might bring on
war, and asked him if he wished for war. He protested, and added
that direct conversations between Vienna and St. Petersburg were
in progress, and that from now on he expected a favorable
result."

Von Jagow had made the same suggestion to the British and Italian
Ambassadors.

"My colleagues and I thought that this was only a question of
form, and the British Ambassador is going to suggest to his
Government that they should change the wording of their proposal,
which might take the character of a diplomatic _demarche_ at
Vienna and St. Petersburg.

"In consequence of the repugnance shown by Herr von Jagow to any
demarche at Vienna, Sir Edward Grey could put him in a dilemma by
asking him to state himself precisely how diplomatic action by
the powers to avoid war could be brought about.

"We ought to associate ourselves with every effort in favor of
peace compatible with our engagements toward our ally; but to
place the responsibility in the proper quarter, we must take care
to ask Germany to state precisely what she wishes."

M. Paleologue, Ambassador at St. Petersburg, reported that M.
Sazonof, Russian Secretary for Foreign Affairs, had said "Austria is
unwilling to converse."

M. Dumaine, Ambassador to Vienna, reported the declaration of Count
Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to British
Ambassador Bunsen that discussion of the Serbian reply was useless,
war having been declared. M. Schebeko, Russian Ambassador, said that
his position from the beginning had been that the question was not
of localizing the war, but preventing it. The declaration of war
made _pourparlers_ by the four powers extremely difficult. The
German formula, "Mediation between Austria and Russia," is
unsuitable, since it assumes a dispute between the two empires which
does not exist.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1914

_Austria-Hungary._ On the following day, July 29, 1914, Count
Berchtold, Minister for Foreign Affairs at Vienna, telegraphed the
Ambassadors at St. Petersburg, London, Paris, and Rome, copies of a
memorandum which he had handed Herr von Tschirscky that day in
answer to the _demarche_ made by the German Ambassador, namely that
the Austro-Hungarian Government should accept the Serbian reply
either as satisfactory or as a basis for discussion. The memorandum
declared that, contrary to the