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Seizing the opportunity presented by Ferdinand's assassination who in any event had not been viewed with any great favour, either by Franz Josef or by his government , the Austro-Hungarian government decided to settle a long-standing score with near-neighbour Serbia. Austria-Hungary's response, following a Ministerial Council Meeting on 7 July, - its ultimatum - comprised a lengthy list of demands made upon the Serbian government.
It took as its basis an assumption that the Serbian government was implicated in events at Sarajevo. The ultimatum was presented by the Austrian government to Belgrade on Thursday 23 July at 6 p. A response was demanded within two days, by Saturday 25 July at 6 p. Sir Edward Grey , the British Foreign Secretary, commented that he had "never before seen one State address to another independent State a document of so formidable a character.
The text of the ultimatum follows, as does the Serbian response, which virtually conceded all demands made by the Austro-Hungarians bar one or two minor clauses.
Nonetheless, war was declared by Austria-Hungary shortly afterwards. Your Excellency will present the following note to the Royal Government on the afternoon of Thursday, July On the 31st of March, , the Royal Serbian Minister at the Court of Vienna made, in the name of his Government, the following declaration to the Imperial and Royal Government:.
Serbia recognizes that her rights were not affected by the state of affairs created in Bosnia, and states that she will accordingly accommodate herself to the decisions to be reached by the Powers in connection with Article 25 of the Treaty of Berlin.
Serbia, in accepting the advice of the Great Powers, binds herself to desist from the attitude of protest and opposition which she has assumed with regard to the annexation since October last, and she furthermore binds herself to alter the tendency of her present policy toward Austria-Hungary, and to live on the footing of friendly and neighborly relations with the latter in the future.
Now the history of the past few years, and particularly the painful events of the 28th of June, have proved the existence of a subversive movement in Serbia, whose object it is to separate certain portions of its territory from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. This movement, which came into being under the very eyes of the Serbian Government, subsequently found expression outside of the territory of the Kingdom in acts of terrorism, in a number of attempts at assassination, and in murders.
Far from fulfilling the formal obligations contained in its declaration of the 31st of March, , the Royal Serbian Government has done nothing to suppress this movement. It has tolerated the criminal activities of the various unions and associations directed against the Monarchy, the unchecked utterances of the press, the glorification of the authors of assassinations, the participation of officers and officials in subversive intrigues; it has tolerated an unhealthy propaganda in its public instruction; and it has tolerated, finally, every manifestation which could betray the people of Serbia into hatred of the Monarchy and contempt for its institutions.
The demands, approved by Germany, had been deliberately formulated so sharply by Austria that complete fulfilment was considered unlikely. Serbia fulfilled a large part of the demands within these 48 hours, but not the entirety. Thus, in the context of this escalation of tensions between the European Great Powers known as the July Crisis, the threatened declaration of war was issued on July 28th,
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