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Like all the others, he had read on the news bulletin outside a radiogram stating that the Austrian government had just sent an ultimatum to Servia; but it made not the slightest impression on him, for he was not at all interested in the Balkan affairs.

Those were but the quarrels of a miserable little nation monopolizing the attention of the world, distracting it from more worthwhile matters.

How could this event concern the martial Counsellor?
The two nations would soon come to an understanding.

Diplomacy sometimes amounted to something.
"No," insisted the German ferociously.

"It is war, blessed war.