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Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches)
Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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it. The wires were weighted with diplomatic messages during the few hoursthat were so fraught with good or evil forthe future of Europes peoples. The chiefdemand was for an extension of time sothat a tribunal of nations might considerAustrias demands. Serbia herself askedfor an ai^peal to the Hague Conference.Austria, however, seemed to ignore allgood offices and the requests of the otherpowers met with the curtest refusal foran extension of time. Just one more evidence of the war plot-ting of Germany and Austria. It wasshown later that though Germany inter-ceded to the extent of proposing thatRussia and Austria open direct negotia-tions to settle the dispute, that it was atGermanys own instance that her ally de-clined this offer. The Kaiser, who re-turned unexpectedly from a yachtingcruise four days before war broke out,made a great show of attempting pacifi-cation, but it developed later that his ef-forts at mediation were confined to tiyingto persuade Russia to remain as a specta-
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Family of the Ex-Czar of Russia. 34 THE PEOPLES WAE BOOK tor while Austria crushed Serbia, Russiasdirect ally. At that time Prince Lichuowsky wasthe ambassador from Berlin to London.After three years of silence, the diplomatpublished his version of the diplomaticparleys which preceded the war and hisrevelations caused a sensation, even inBerlin. The Prince then stated that itwould have been an easy matter to smoothover the differences between Austria andSerbia in two sittinj^s of the conferenceproposed by Great Britain. He furtherstated that a hint from Berlin to Count Berchold, Austrian minister of foreignaffairs, the one individual, whom with theKaiser, has been most blamed for the war,would have been sufficient to make himacquiesce in Serbias concessions. What happened? writes Prince Lich-nowsky. This hint was not given; on thecontrarj^ we pressed for war. Sir EdwardGrey besought Germany to make a pro-posal of her own; we insisted upon war.The Russian foreign minister made urg-ent

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