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...Balkan wars, curtain raiser to the big show, gave both Austria and Russia the dangerous feeling that each had sacrificed more power and prestige than the other. Author Wolff does not believe that the War was inevitable. If Germany had not let Austria have her head in dealing with Serbia after Serajevo, if news of Serbia's satisfactory reply to Austria's ultimatum had not been suppressed for three crucial days-in short, if Germany had not taken too long a gambling chance for the sake of bluffing her opponents, peace might have been preserved. Author Wolff absolves...
...Heaton Vorse, just after the Armistice, on the last convoyed ship to leave Manhattan. England's Black Country, faced with "the great calamity of peace"; Paris of the Peace Conference; Italy, with new ruins to add to its old; the meeting of the Second International at Berne; devastated Serbia, machine-gun fire in starving Vienna, Budapest under Bela Kun's Communist regime-all these she saw and reported. The one meeting she refused was an interview with Queen Marie of Rumania. Once more in the U. S., her active indignation sent her into the great steel strike...
Traveling about the country, living on goats' cheese and skewered lamb, Dr. House witnessed the complete independence of Serbia, Rumania and Montenegro; saw a Hohenzollern prince proclaimed Rumania's first king; later saw the Duke of Edinburgh's flighty daughter Marie started on her way to becoming that country's most famed queen. The first Balkan War and the Second came and went, followed by the World War, the Greek Revolution and the birth of Albania but Dr. House kept right on teaching school. Once in 1902 he made world headlines by spending nine weeks hunting...
...Army and Navy, he sized up Greek military pretensions as a hollow bluff, saw that Greece's future depended on the good will of the Powers, proceeded to play the future that way. He broke with previous Greek policy by joining the Balkan League of Bulgaria and Serbia and ganging on Turkey in the first Balkan War. This time Greece won. In the squabble over the spoils, alert Venizelos formed another alliance with Serbia and ganged on Bulgaria. Spoils: most of Macedonia and the Aegean Islands, the most productive lands in the realm and 100% more people...
...typhus broke out in Serbia. In six months it killed 150,000 Serbs, 30,000 Austrian prisoners. Spreading to Russia, it infected 25,000,000 people, killed 3,000,000. Hindenburg feared to move German troops from the infected Russian border to the Western front...