The Thirteen Days, July 23-August 4, 1914 - A Chronicle and Interpretation #255564

I have not (consciously at any rate) selected evidence with a view to making a case, but have tried to give the substance of all the really significant documents, cutting away repetitions and verbiage, and condensing very freely, but quoting verbatim such passages and expres sions as seemed to me of crucial importance. Wherever quotation-marks are employed, I have taken only the most trifling liberties with the text, such as substituting Austria for austria-hungary changing the first person into the third, and so forth. Italics are throughout my own. They appear very rarely in the original docu ments, perhaps because of the fact that most of these are telegrams.