Europe in the Melting-Pot e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. During the year which followed I was reluctantly driven to admit that good faith and serious intentions were alike lacking at headquarters in Vienna: and the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand - who with all his faults represented a real driving force and was bent upon a solution of the racial problem - removed the only man at all capable of guiding events or holding back the machine of state from the abyss.