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Gordon Gordon-Smith: From Serbia to Yugoslavia
"As Secretary General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Serbia, it was my duty to receive, together with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Pacu, the famous Austro-Hungarian ultimatum that the Austro-Hungarian ambassador, Baron Giesel von Gieslingen, handed to us on July 25, 1914. Serbia had no choice but to fight. And it fought, but it did not die. On the contrary, it rose with renewed strength, because it achieved its aspirations of Yugoslav unification in one kingdom. The Allied victory in 1918, in which Serbia played an important military role, ended with the liberation of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes who had been under the cruel yoke of Austria for centuries. However, Austria-Hungary, which wanted to deal a fatal blow to its small neighbor, failed foreword by Slavko J. Grujić
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