A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard
Capitolo 4
while Germany treated with the Powers that would certainly be behaved
from the attack on Serb independence.
The great Power immediately pertained to was a lot Russia that had from
inhaled to a result in European waters not stopped by ice in winter or
checked from Baltic States. For that and for the least interested one
reasons for religion and racial understanding she had fought against results of
countries against the Turks of whom you/they finished more in the liberation
of the Balkans in 1878; and she could not be standing inactive while the fruits
of his/her age-long efforts you/he/she was gathered by the Central Empires and her
she was stopped by the Mediterranean by a more fatal obstacle
what a Turkish dominion in the form of a Teutonic corridor from Berlin
to Baghdad. Serbia Orthodox in religion and Slavic in run, was also,
you limit more from next to Russia that was some other is Balkan; and a
you attach on Serbia it was a deadly affront to the Russian empire. It was
not deliberate as anything other. Russia was slowly recovering from her
defeats in the war of Russian-Japanese of 1904-5 and from the revolutionary one
you burst that had followed; and there was you doubt a little sooner that
or later her it would look for the compensation for the buckets refusals of which she had suffered
from the fist planned during his/her impotence. Conscience made Germany
sensitive to the Slav danger, and its militarist philosophy taught him
what the best defense was to find its hit in the first one. His/her diplomacy in
July was directed verse combining this advantage with the
aspect, had need to bemuse its people and the world to great of
acting in self-defence.
But Russia was the object of the diplomatic activity of Germany rather than
of his/her military preparations. You thought that Russia was not able
you effectively mobilize in less than six weeks or strike in less than two
or three months, and that that interval would be enough for the overwhelming one
of France that was tied up from essay to intervene if Russia were