[33] Cd. 7626, No. 45.
[34] Cd. 7626, No. 60.
[35] Cd. 7626, No. 67.
[36] Great Britain and the European Crisis, No. 131.
[37] Cd. 7626, No. 73.
[38] Cd. 7626, No. 70.
[39] Great Britain and the European Crisis, No. 161.
GERMAN MILITARISM WINS.
Thus Germany rejected all suggestions, while Austria, supported by Germany, was determined on war. The Serbian episode was clearly an excuse. Germany's alliance with Austria was "defensive." She was bound to join with Austria only in case of the latter being attacked by Russia. Austria claimed that because Russia would not stand idle while Serbia was crushed, therefore Russia was the aggressor. Germany was a party to the Austrian attack on Serbia. The British Ambassador at Vienna on July 30 says: "I have private information that the German Ambassador (at Vienna) knew the text of the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia before it was despatched and telegraphed it to the German Emperor. I know from the German Ambassador himself that he endorses every line of it."[40]