The decoration
itself, dear friend, shall be handed to you by a special envoy as
soon as it is convenient for you.
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[Illustration: COUNT LEOPOLD BERCHTOLD.
Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs.
(_Photo from Underwood & Underwood._)]
A PURELY DEFENSIVE WAR.
By Count Berchtold, Foreign Minister for Austria-Hungary.
(Copyright, Evening News Publishing Company of Newark, N.J., 1914.)
Austria-Hungary looks upon this war as a purely defensive one,
which has been forced on her by the agitation directed by Russia
against her very existence. Austria-Hungary has given many proofs
in late years of her peaceful intention. She refrained from any
interference with arms in the Balkan war, though her interests were
at stake. Subsequent events have proved what a serious danger the
increase in territory and prestige which it brought Servia were for
Austria-Hungary. Servia's ambitions have since grown and have been
solely directed against the Dual Monarchy. Russia has tacitly
approved of Servia's action because Russian statesmen wish to form
an iron ring of enemies around Austria-Hungary and Germany in order
that Russia's grasp on Constantinople and on Asia should never
again be meddled with.
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