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...classes most eager to emigrate are former Austro-Hungarian army officers, discharged civil servants, skilled factory hands and thousands of well-educated young women previously engaged in war work. Agricultural laborers, miners, etc., are not seeking to leave their country...
...outbreak of the Great War Mr. Brasol enlisted in the Russian Guards as a volunteer with the rank of Second Lieutenant, and fought in the successful campaign against the Austro-German armies in Galicia. After a long period of arduous fighting, in which his health suffered severely, he was appointed Military Prosecuting Attorney in charge of the trial of General Souschomlimor, former Russian Minister. At the conclusion of this trial, at which the General was convicted of treason and sentenced to imprisonment for life, Lieutenant Brasol was sent by the Russian Government to England. He remained there nine weeks...
...Austria, so tensely watched by the rest of Europe, have finally been announced, much to the satisfaction of the Entente. For the Austrians, led by most of their daily journals, have shaken off the spell of Prussian mesmerism and dealt a decided blow to the hopes of an Austro-German State . . . hopes which were not merely fictional, but were worked out on an absolute plan with characteristic German efficiency. Pan-Germanism is the name for this idea which would unite Austria and Germany into one; it has its leaders and thinkers, who were running for Austrian offices in the elections...
Professor Coolidge's publication of the Austro-Hungarian secret treaties in English is of very great importance not only to historians but to all men who are interested in public and international affairs. From these documents it will be possible accurately to trace the development of that web of secret diplomacy which lay behind the activity of the Central Powers in precipitating the world war. We learn, for example, that Austria had been granted the right by Germany and Russia to annex Bosnia and Herzogovina as early as 1881, and this shows us why Russia was obliged to withdraw...
...that any country in the world can go back to the place that it occupied five years ago. Not only are three great empires smashed, but the fourth--Germany, seems to be in the midst of civil war. If the world lets go, that country as well as Russia, Austro-Hungary and Turkey, are certain to plunge into confused and hopeless civil wars. It is not for the interest of the rest of the world that half of Europe and half of Asia should be left to fall into anarchy. It is not to the interest of the United States...