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Identifier: onehundredyearso00morr (find matches)
Title: One hundred years of conflict between the nations of Europe, the causes and issues of the great war;
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Printed by G. F. Lasher & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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UNDERLYING CAUSES OF THE GREAT WAR 45 WHY RUSSIA ENTERED THE FIELD In this survey of the causes of the great war under considera-tion the position of Russia comes next. That country was thefirst to follow Austria and begin the threatening work of mobiliza-tion. Germanys first open participation consisted in a warningto Russia that this work must cease. Only when her warningwas disregarded did Germany begin mobilization and declare war.All this was the work of a very few days, but in this era of activemilitary preparedness it needs only days, only hours in someinstances, to change from a state of peace into a state of war andhurl great armed hosts against the borders of hostile nations. The general impression was that it was the Slavic race senti-ment that inspired Russias quick action. Servia, a country ofSlavs, brothers in race to a large section of the people of Russia,was threatened with national annihilation and her great kinsmansprang to her rescue, determined that she should not

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