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"Europe is trembling": R. Churchill 1969:1987–88
"a document . . . so formidable": Great Britain 1915:30–31
Lichnowsky reported: Kautsky 1924:184–85
189 "did not aim at a territorial gain": Albertini 1952 II:378
190 "Then it is war": Ibid.
"You are setting fire to Europe": Ibid.:291
191 "Russia is rapidly becoming": Evans and Strandmann 1990:76
"saw their position": Ibid.:77
"ten states": Ibid.
"242,000 were on strike": Ibid.
192 "enough for all": Massie 1996:186
193 "in strict confidence": Kautsky 1924:180
"unable to counsel Vienna": Ibid.
Berchtold an "Ass!": Ibid.:182
194 Hayne tells us: Hayne 1993:294–95
"an . . . internal affair": Geiss 1967:180
CHAPTER 31: SERBIA MORE OR LESS ACCEPTS
195 A "pretty strong note": Görlitz 1961:5
"to express his despair": Albertini 1952 II:348
196 Ballin . . . "disappointment" . . . "joy": Fischer 1975:464–65
197 "demands could bring about": Geiss 1967:200–201; Albertini 1952 II:372
198 "Bravo! One would not have believed it": Kautsky 1924:186
"neither London . . . wants war": Evans and Strandmann 1990:102
CHAPTER 32: SHOWDOWN IN BERLIN
201 reports of the Saxon and Bavarian: Berghahn 1993:212
202 "the almost complete destruction of Moltke's papers 'precludes formal connection' ": Mombauer 2001:186
"would be pleased if war were to come": Ibid.:187
"an opportunity rather than a threat": Ibid.
203 Russia's mobilization . . . smaller scale: Ibid.:200
204 As Conrad saw it. . . Austria would crush Serbia: W. Churchill 1931:120–26
"the most modern in Europe": Keegan 1999:77–78
CHAPTER 33: JULY 26
206 "official hours . . . twelve to six": Steiner 1969:12
207 "War is thought imminent": Albertini 1952 II:390
"Russia cannot allow Austria": Ibid.
"Russia is trying to drag us": Brock and Brock 1985:125–26
208 "he thought there would be peace": Riddell 1986:84
"Only a calendar of events": Steiner 1977:219
"a European forum": Albertini 1952 II:404
209 "Berlin is playing with us": Geiss 1967:235
210 In Conrad's account: Ibid.:227
He "urgently entreated" Germany: Kautsky 1924:220–21
211 Moltke . . . "very dissatisfied": Mombauer 2001:197
CHAPTER 34: JULY 27
212 "You have cooked the broth": Bülow 1931 II:184
213 Bethmann explained ". . . it is not possible for us to refuse": Fischer 1967:70
"If Germany candidly told Sir E. Grey": Geiss 1967:236
215 The press lord . . . among those present: Riddell 1986:85
"war . . . by no means impossible": R. Churchill 1969:1988
216 The small war . . . to a big one: Geiss 1967:239
"Our entire future relations with England": Ibid.:240
"it would never again be possible": Ibid.:241
"war is inevitable": Albertini 1952 II:416
"allow Russia to put herself in the wrong": Berghahn 1993:216
"Austro-Hungarian note was so drawn up": Great Britain 1915:74
CHAPTER 35: JULY 28
217 "It has now been decided to fight": Herwig 1997:26
218 "singularly favorable situation": Berghahn 1993:212
"every cause for war has vanished": Geiss 1967:256
"never have ordered a mobilization": Clark 2000:208
"Nevertheless, the piece of paper": Geiss 1967:256
The Austrians were to be told . . . no longer: Clark 2000:208–209
219 "Perhaps the most striking thing": Ibid.:209
"The Kaiser absolutely wants peace": Mombauer 2001:199
"made confused speeches": Clark 2000:208
"no longer had control": Herwig 1997:26
House . . . "military oligarchy" . . . "determined on war": Ensor 1936:484
220 Serbian troops had opened fire: Albertini 1952 II:460–61
"chiefly to frustrate . . . intervention": Kautsky 1924:243
221 "the frivolous provocation": Berghahn 1993:216
222 "upon a preparatory precautionary basis": R. Churchill 1967:692
"everything tends towards catastrophe": Ibid.:694
"It looks ominous": Brock and Brock 1985:161
CHAPTER 36: JULY 29
224 "Germany was likewise obliged to mobilize": Albertini 1952 II:499
"war which will annihilate the civilization": Ibid.:488–89
224 Chancellor . . . "had collapsed": Ibid.:495
225 "in order to keep England neutral": Ibid.:498
To his ambassador in Austria: Albertini 1952 III:1
226 "In order to prevent general catastrophe": Ibid.:2
"Who rules in Berlin?": Mombauer 2001:205
In diplomatic language: Albertini 1952 II:513–14
"We have been trying to accomplish this": Kautsky 1924:319–22
"unless Austria is willing": Ibid.:3i3
227 "England
alone":
Ibid.:319–22
"It is one of the ironies of the case": Brock and Brock 1985:132
"as darkness fell": W. Churchill 1923:212
CHAPTER 37: JULY 30
229 Stengers has shown: Wilson 1995:125
230 "all too late": Kautsky 1924:368
"It will hardly be possible . . . Russia's shoulders": Ibid.:372
"the incontrovertible suspicion": Ibid.
"behind my back": Albertini 1952 III:2
231 "I have got to mobilize as well!": Ibid.:3
could "remain mobile behind their frontier": Lieven 1983:146
"Right, that is it": Kautsky 1924:375; Cimbala 1996:389
232 "Russia does not intend to wage war": Berghahn 1993:217
"War must not be declared on Russia": Ibid.
"His changes of mood": Mombauer 2001:205
"Irresponsibility and weakness": Albertini 1952 III:34
233 "expectant and excited women": Bonham-Carter 1965:305
Viviani cabled: Wilson 1995:127
"in the precautionary measures": Albertini 1952 II:604
"the prospect very black today": Brock and Brock 1985:136
CHAPTER 38: JULY 31
234 Jules Cambon . . . cabled: Hayne 1993:293
Williamson suggests: Williamson 1991:207
n.
122
235 "the peace of Europe . . . maintained": Albertini 1952 III:37
"I thank you . . . for your mediation": Ibid.:56
"extraordinarily near to war": Ibid.:62
"There is still hope": Gilbert 1975:21
236 "keep out at almost all costs": Brock and Brock 1985:138
" 'We shall all be ruined' ": Riddell 1986:85
"very strong" . . . against intervention: Gilbert 1971:21
Churchill told Smith: Ibid.:22
CHAPTER 39: AUGUST I
237 "L1. George—all for peace": Brock and Brock 1985:140
"It is our whole future": R. Churchill 1969:701
238 "I am most profoundly anxious": Ibid.
"these measures do not mean war": Massie 1996:258
239 "Nobody today can have a notion": Mombauer 2001:206
" 'Then we simply deploy' ": Albertini 1952 III:172
240 "my heart would break": Ibid.: 176
"there must be some misunderstanding": Ibid.: 177
241 "War declared by Germany on Russia": Beaverbrook 1960:29
242 "one of my strangest experiences": Brock and Brock 1985:140
"I run to the War Ministry": Evans and Strandmann 1990:120
"The mood is brilliant": Ibid.
CHAPTER 40: AUGUST 2
244 We have no obligation: Brock and Brock 1985:146
suggestions "of a military-political nature": Geiss 1967:179 ff.
245 France and Russia already had commenced: Kautsky 1924:496
"a war of aggression": Ibid.:501
"the Grand Duchy is being occupied": Ibid.:482
"attack by the French": Ibid.:483
246 "The question as to whether": Ibid.
Britain was bound to come to its aid: Albertini 1952 III:410
CHAPTER 41: AUGUST 3
247 German forces had done so too: Kautsky 1924:527
"not a single French soldier": Ibid.
"with almost Austrian crassness": Brock and Brock 1985:148
248 according to Barbara Tuchman: Tuchman 1963:139
"Grey made a most remarkable speech": Jenkins 1966:329
Violet Asquith asked: Bonham-Carter 1965:312
CHAPTER 42: AUGUST 4
250 As A. J. P. Taylor tells us: Taylor 1965:2–3
"a panic in Berlin": Evans and Strandmann 1990:116
Moltke told Tirpitz: Ibid.
CHAPTER 43: SHREDDING THE EVIDENCE
251 suppression or destruction of evidence: Herwig 1997 and the Herwig chapter in Winter/Parker/Habeck 2000 are followed in this chapter.
253 Röhl . . . "discovered in a chest": Röhl 1973:17
CHAPTER 46: THE KEY TO WHAT HAPPENED
273 Fellner . . . "In this hard struggle": Wilson 1995:22
274 "There was certainly no logic": Howard 2002:28
CHAPTER 48: WHO COULD HAVE PREVENTED IT?
284 why, since "War had been avoided": Joll 1992:234
CHAPTER 50: COULD IT HAPPEN AGAIN?
293 "the nations slithered": Mombauer 2002:95
"the unleashing of the First World War": Aron 1990:275
CHAPTER 52: AUSTRIA'S WAR
301 no longer was a military great power: Keegan 1999:170
it had lost 1,268,000 men: Ibid.
"If only I knew for what": Herwig 1997:91
"cost him . . . Gina": Ibid.:92
"I have no home": Ibid.:96
302 "would have had me shot": Ibid.:94
CHAPTER 53: GERMANY'S WAR
305
"this war which I prepared":
Mombauer 2001:281

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