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gram: ell the d tors not to ther the little one t much. He will all right" Immediately Alexandra relaxed and came cheerful. She nt the d tors away. In a few hours the bleeding stopped and Alexis gan a slow but steady recovery. Whether the child would have come well anyway or whether Alexandra's relaxation and after the telegram had a psy­ cholo cal effect on her n or whether Rasputin actually used me preternatural wer, we do not know. But Alexandra attributed her n's recovery to a miracle worked by Rasputin, and his ition in the palace came immovable. Even when clear evidence of his immoral life was brought to Alexandr she refu d to lieve it Nicholas allowed her to have her way, against his tter dgment, and the people's res ct for the royal family greatly declined
e War Begi
We have en the instability in Euro and the lack of moral princi­ ple on the part of most of Euro 's leader Ironically, it was the country with the m t moral gove ent-Austria-Hungary-which was the first to declare war and o n the conflict which was known at the time as the Great War and now is known as World War L
The Austrian cupation of B nia-Herzegovina had en g for the inhabitant They now had what they had not had fore: roads, h ls and order. Both Catholic and M lem residents were happy. But the Serbs were not happy and were constantly agitating, trying to start trouble. A se­ cret oup known as the Black Hand was forme with rituals that emed alm t dia lica The mem rs were m tly young nians who wanted to break away from Austria They were ven asylum in rbia When word came out that the heir to the Austrian throne, Franz rdinand, would visiting Sara vo, the capital of nia, the Black Hand planned his a ination. There is d umentary evidence that rbian gove ment officials encouraged the plans and gave a istance to the plotter The plan was succ ful, and Franz Ferdinand and phie were shot by Gavrilo Princip while riding in an o n car in a motorcade through ra vo on
June , 1 4.
Franz J f had now en his brother, wife and he murdered by
revolutionarie He w no other recour than ste punishment of th res nsible, which included the rbian gove ment Yet he did not ­ have rashly. He considered all alte tiv fore finally i uing an ultima­ tum to rbia, alm t a month after the murder. The main provisions ­ cluded the eradication of anti-Austrian ieties in rbia and Austrian