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Excerpt from The Thirteen Days, July 23-August 4, 1914: A Chronicle and Interpretation The relations between two States must often be termed a latent war, which is provisionally being waged in peaceful rivalry. Such a position justifies the employment of hostile methods, cunning and deception, just as war itself does. The determined attitude of the German Empire [in the Bosnian Crisis of 1908] had sufficed to show the other Powers, acting under England's leadership, that they must draw in their horns as soon as it came to the final test, namely war... To her ally, Austria-Hungary, the German Empire had done a great, nay, a decisive, service... A further gain for Austria-Hungary lay in the proof that her confidence had brilliantly justified itself. The natural result was a great increase in the political self-reliance of Austria-Hungary. It had hitherto been thought that the Dual Monarchy was incapable of vigorous action in foreign affairs. The Bosnian Crisis had shown this to be an error. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.