Excerpt from Austria-Hungary and the War I consider it highly important that the case for Austria-Hungary, in the present conflict of nations, should be put before the American public with minute precision. We are all agreed in abhorring war and in deploring the outbreak of a catastrophe the like of which history has never witnessed. Those who are responsible for it will forever remain branded with a stigma of infamy which amount of military or political success can wipe off their foreheads. Feeling as strongly as I do on that point, devoted as I am to the peace ideal, I consider myself qualified to proclaim before the whole world that my country is free from guilt in the horrible contest which has been forced upon her, and that she can face it with all the moral power of a pure conscience. Servia's Territorial Ambitions End in the Present War The direct cause of the outbreak is Servia's insane ambition to extend her dominion over those southern provinces of Austria-Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina to begin with, Croatia and the Slovene countries to follow, where South Slavs live in great numbers. Never could a small country like Servia urish such designs against a great Power, unless it felt sure of being supported by some other great Power. Recent developments have shown that Servia had good reasons to expect such support. On behalf of the mad ambitions, t warranted even by the claims of racial kinship, since the Roman Catholic Croats generally abhor Servia, a constant agitation was organized in the aforementioned parts of Austria and Hungary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.