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Title: The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931, ed
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Sully and Kleinteich
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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declared in a recent interview, that there is a Pan-Serb propaganda in Austria; but this projiaganda is among theSerbs and Croats in Austria, and not among the Serbs in Servia orMontenegro, These Austrian Serbs—and I am one of them—needno encouragement from Servia to carry on their national movement.Austrian violation of every princii^le of justice and fairness, Aus-trian tyranny, which cannot find its parallel in the darkest periodof the Middle Ages, is responsible for this Pan-Serb movementin Austria. In 1690 thirty-five thousand picked Serb families left Old Ser-via at the express invitation of Emperor Leopold I of Austria andsettled along the southern Austrian frontier, which was then beingdevastated by the Turks. And now a refusal of the Austrian Empireto deal fairly with her Serb subjects is particularly hard in face of thefact that for two centuries they were the bravest and most loyal de-fenders of the empire. In return for their splendid services to the empire, the Serbs
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THE IMMEDIATE CAUSES OF THE WAR 23 of Austria became victims of the modern Austrian policy of ex-pansion toward the JEgean Sea. The Serb is imaginative, fondof his national music and poetry and of his national costumes, andnothing in the world can prevent him from indulging in the sweetdreams of the Serb minstrel who sang of the return of the Serbglories of the fourteenth century. This is the only offense of whichthe Austrian Serb is guilty, and this offense constitutes high treasonin the Austrian Empire. The annexation by Austria of Bosnia and Herzegovina, thehome of the flower of the Serb race, in 1908, drove the people to des-peration and resulted in the Sarajevo tragedy, for which Austriablames the Kingdom of Servia. The Servian youth who fired theshot is a member of the Pan-Serb jiropaganda in Austria, but everySerb in Austria is a member of this propaganda. I am a member ofit, although I have lived in this country since my boyhood. To the testimony of Professor Pupin (quoted abo

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