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Unleashing the War 1035 235 Williamson, Austria-Hungary, 209. 236 Şerban Rădulescu-Zoner, Rumänien und der Dreibund 1878–1914 (=  Bibliotheca Historica Romanie, Studies 65, Bucureşti, 1983), 291. 237 Szápáry to Berchtold, 27.7.1914, quoted from : Baumgart, Julikrise, 160. 238 The reference to this telegram is given in a report written in September by Maurice de Bunsen dur- ing his last weeks in Vienna (TNA, Kew, FO 371, Box 1900, dated with receipt stamp 12.9.1914, although only completed by Bunsen after 22.9. The telegram number was later added at the Foreign Office. The telegram itself is not included in the bundle of dispatches and reports on the outbreak of the war, although telegram no. 85 to Foreign Secretary Grey is included in the official British document publication : British Documents on the Origins of the War 1898–1914, edited by G.P. Gooch, Harold Temperley, Vol. XI (London, 1926), 39 et seq. 239 In St. Petersburg, the British ambassador, Sir George Buchanan, reported on 18.7. what he had learned on his detour via London from his colleague Bunsen in Vienna. 240 Andrej Mitrović (Serbia’s Great War, 47) supports the view that the idea originated in Paris. 241 Fischer, Deutschland und der Ausbruch des Weltkrieges, in : Erster Weltkrieg. Ursachen, 46. The no- tions held by Kaiser Wilhelm regarding Belgrade as a ‘pledge’, in : Baumgart, Julikrise, 163 et seq. and 168 et seq. 242 Fellner, Mission Hoyos, 406 et seq. 243 Hantsch, Berchtold, Vol. 2, 558. 244 McMeekin, The Russian Origins, 63. 245 Alexander Popovics, Das Geldwesen im Krieg (=  Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte des Weltkrieges, österreichische und ungarische Serie, edited by Carnegie Stiftung für Internationalen Frieden, Abt. für Volkswirtschaft und Geschichte, Vienna/New Haven, 1925), 41. 246 Fischer, Deutschland und der Ausbruch, 35. 247 Transcript of a record of a conversation by Moriz Benedikt on the interview with Count Forgách on 16 July 1914. (My heartfelt thanks for permission to use this document go to the granddaughter of Moriz Benedikt, Frau Susanne Ovadia). 248 Ibid. 249 John F. V. Keiger, France and the Origins of the First World War (London, 1983), 145 et seqq. 250 Zara S. Steiner, Britain and the Origins of the First World War (London, 1977), 215 et seqq. 251 Baumgart, Julikrise, 118 et seq. and 122. 252 See Şerban Rădulescu-Zoner, România în fata crizei internationale din Iulie 1914, in : Revista de isto- rie 1/1973 (Bucharest), 81–99. I am very grateful to Professor Dr Dumitru Preda, Bucharest, for the reference to the Romanian publications on the July Crisis, and for the allocation and translation of Romanian documents. 253 TNA, Kew, FO 371/2158/33674, Sir Horace Rumbold to the Foreign Office, 24.7.1914. 254 Leslie, Österreich-Ungarn vor dem Kriegsausbruch, 679. 255 Fischer, Deutschland und der Ausbruch, 39. 256 Ibid., 40. 257 TNA, Kew, FO 371/2159/33474. Dispatch by the British ambassador in Rome regarding information given by the Serbian chargé d’affaires to the Italian Foreign Minister San Giuliano on 28 July. 4. Unleashing the War 258 Wladimir Baron Giesl, Zwei Jahrzehnte im Nahen Orient. Aufzeichnungen, edited by Generalmajor Ritter von Steinitz (Berlin, 1927), 271.