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Amerioan Revolution, the wars of the French Revolution, etc., etc.
But no such International Power existed either earlier, or in 1914.
Count Sforza, far more aptly than many others, has designated
the War of 1914 as a "War of the Austrian Suocession." The Haps -
burg Empire, as 1t existed, was an anachronism. Varied, legitimate,
and in common belief, laudable, nationalist surges, such as had
arisen in the Nineteenth Century, and earlier in the American
Revolution, were beating upon that structure. Could it have been,
by a higher statesmanship than Vienna had exhibited, peasefully
remodelled to fit the New Age and to satisfy all the tenants?
This is an intriguing question. For it was only about two genera-
tions earlier that a Czech patriot had declared: "If Austria-Hungary
did not exist, it would be necessary to create it."
Yet in 1914 it was not Serbs alone. It was Italians, Poles,
and Czechs as well, in rebellion against the anachronism. The
taking off of the prospective early successor to its throne would
greatly facilitate disintegration, once the old Emperor had passed
on. Humanly regarded, could those Magyars and Austrians who controll-
ed the Hapsburg Empire be expected to go out of business without
making a fight to hold their position? Of course they ought to
have. But!
What was the bearing of this situation upon Germany, and
upon William II? The foreign policy of Germany, after Bismarck,
had been 30 inept that by 1914 the Hapsburg Empire seemed, in
Berlin, the only strong friend and ally upon whom Germany could
count. If that Empire were shattered, on whose support might
Germany lean?
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