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The German Ambassadors in the three capitals were instructed
"to lay particular stress on the view that the above question
is one the settlement of which devolves solely upon
Austria-Hungary and Servia, and one which the powers should
earnestly strive to confine to the two countries concerned,"
and he added that Germany strongly desired
"that the dispute be localized, since any intervention of
another power, on account of the various alliance obligations,
would bring consequences impossible to measure."
This is one of the most significant documents in the whole
correspondence. If Germany were as ignorant as her Ambassador at London
affected to be of the Austrian policy and ultimatum, and if Germany was
not then instigating and supporting Austria in its perilous course, why
should the German Chancellor have served this threatening notice upon
England, France, and Russia, that Austria must be left free to make war
upon Servia, and that any attempt to intervene in behalf of the weaker
nation would "bring consequences impossible to measure"?
[German "White Paper," Annex 1B.
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