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Updated: May 13, 2025
One day, I mind, the newspapers were full of the tale of a crime ill an odd spot in Europe that none of us had ever heard of before. You mind the place? Serajevo! Aye we all mind it now! But then we read, and wondered how that outlandish name might be pronounced. A foreigner was murdered what if he was a prince, the Archduke of Austria? Need we lash ourselves about him?
On June 28, 1914, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian crowns, and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenburg, were shot to death in the street at Serajevo, the capital of the annexed provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to which they were paying a visit of ceremony. The news of this murder filled all thoughtful people in Europe with horror and dismay.
It was signed by Germany and by all her enemies, with the exception of China, on 28 June, five years to a day since the murder at Serajevo; and early in July it was ratified by a two to one vote of the German Assembly at Weimar and by the German President Ebert. The Treaty, which filled a volume of over four hundred pages, had no precedent for its importance or its bulk.
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