the day
when the Serbs might be joined to their unredeemed brethren; and as
for the blessed word "propaganda," which covers everything from the
mildest expression of opinion to assassination, there has been no
responsible Austrian so reckless as to accuse the Serbs or M. Hartwig
of having had recourse to methods that approached in wrong-doing their
own notorious (and unsuccessful) forgeries.

Let us address three questions to those who carried on a calumnious
campaign against Serbia:

(a) Why was the Sarajevo trial conducted behind a closed
door? If the crime was instigated and perpetrated by Serbia,
the Habsburg Monarchy, which at the time of the trial had
already declared war on Serbia, had every interest in
establishing with all publicity the guilt and the complicity
of Serbian circles.

(b) Why were the evidence of the witnesses and the
declarations of the authors of the assassination not
published? It was only in 1918 that the Austrian Government,
with the help of a professor of Berlin University, published
a few facts taken from the proceedings of the trial.
Although in this book[75] a great deal of material
importance has been omitted--for example, the declarations
of the witnesses as well as the last declarations of the
accused, nevertheless that which we have before us
constitutes one of the most terrible accusations against the
Habsburg Monarchy. The young accused persons were not afraid
to state, even behind closed doors in a barrack-room, some
bitter truths concerning Austria-Hungary. One can have some
idea of what they would have said in a public trial from the
results of the famous trials of Zagreb and of Friedjung. All
the accused persons, as well as their accomplices, declared
that the decision to kill the Archduke was an act of their
own personal will and that nobody incited or ordered them
to make the attempt, least of all any authority of the
Kingdom of Serbia. The crime was the personal act of Bosnian
patriots who believed that they were serving their oppressed
people. "In Bosnia," said the Minister Burian--"in Bosnia,
there is no policy, there is only administration."

(c) Why did the Sarajevo police and Austro-Hungarian
official circles conduct themselves so strangely with
respect to the bomb-thrower [vC]abrinovi['c], a notorious