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Rogerson and Willett were there; Willett was seedy. Another Englishman named Hamilton, who had an umbrella which he had sworn to take back with him to England. Also two Austro-Serb boys who had been acting as interpreters. West and Mawson were not there. Rogerson said that Sir Ralph had sent them with Mrs. M to see the road and conditions at Mitrovitza; nobody knew when they would be back.
Just as we sat down a woman with a drawn, anxious face came up to us, clutched Jo by the arm and said eagerly "Is it true that you are going to Montenegro?" "Yes," answered Jo. "If we can get there." "Could you give me only a little advice, madame? You see we do not know what to do. My husband he is an old man, and he is an Austro-Serb. If the enemy catch him they will hang him."
The Chancellor then also expressed to our Ambassador, Sir Edward Goschen, the belief that Russia had no right to intervene in the Austro-Serb affair. The Austrian Ambassador at Berlin also opined that "Russia neither wanted nor was in a position to make war." This belief was widely expressed in diplomatic circles at Berlin.
If it succeeds, a continuous barrier of Slav peoples will bar the way to the Mediterranean of the path of Austro-German expansion from the Black Sea to the Adriatic. But here again the Romanoffs confront the Hapsburgs, the Austro-Serb conflict becomes the Austro-Russian conflict, two great groups are formed, and the Balkan conflict becomes the European conflict."
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