Stead's Review, Vol. 49

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Excerpt from Stead's Review, Vol. 49: February 9th, 1918 It is illuminating to consider what the position would be, supposing Austria did draw out of the fight and make terms with her enemies. Would it advantage or harm Germany? In the early months of the war the collapse of Austria would have been fatal to her stern partner, because such collapse could only have been brought about by decisive defeat at the hands of Russia, or internal revolution. Under such circum stances Austria could not have refused passage to Allied troop-s, would have had to agree to cease supplying Germany with food and other necessaries. Before the war was many weeks old, and whilst it was still popular to talk of the irresistible advance of the Russian steam-roller to Berlin, I pointed out that the road to the German capital ran not through Breslau, but through Vienna and Prague, that Russia would have far more chance of ultimate victory if, instead of throwing her armies into East Prussia, she concentrated all her energies on knocking-out Austria, at that time the Achilles Heel of the Teutonic giant. Crippled by her disastrous ventures against Germany, Russia was unable to drive home her victories against Austria, and the chance of breaking down the resist ance of the Dual Empire passed. Had the Russian armies overcome the Austrians, and had the Tsar's men p'oured down on to the Hungarian plains, Bohemia would have revolted, Roumania would have struck, and Austria would 'have collapsed. Instead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.