
Originally Posted by
Simon Appleton
Good point. It's interesting that when Serbia was finally being overrun, the Austrian General Conrad wrote a memo to the Emperor (on 22nd October 1915) raising the possibility of a peace settlement with the existing structure of Europe being kept in tact. However, the British historian Martin Gilbert comments:
The imminence of victory was a time for boasting and advancing, not for reflection and compromise.
On the same day as the Austrians were considering peace, Gilbert cites the Kaiser warning the American Ambassador James Gerard:
"America had better look out after this war"
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