Excerpt from The Bursting of the War Cloud
It seems as if the arts and sciences of civilization had been fostered for the express purpose of destroying civilization.
One can trace the chain of causes and consequences as far back as he pleases, but for present purposes we need not go further back than six years. In 1908, in the heart of the Macedonian mountains, a Turkish officer sent a telegram to Sultan Abdul Hamid demanding constitutional government for Turkey. Out of that event and what followed came a Turkish parliament. To that parliament Bosnia and Hertzegovina demanded the right to send delegates, for by the treaty of Berlin they were suzerain to Turkey, though turned over to Austria for administration. The claim caused embarrassment at Vienna, ending in the high handed annexation of these provinces by Austria.
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