The Czar's Ministers wished to know whether, in the event of a war with Austria, they would have the support of Germany.

To this the Chancellor replied, that Germany could not allow the present equilibrium of the monarchical Powers to be disturbed: "The result.

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was that the Russian storm passed from Eastern Galicia to the Balkans[121]." Thereafter Russia came to terms with Austria as described above.
[Footnote 120: Elie de Cyon, _op.

cit._ chap.