tion. At that time I was less well acquainted with their disputes about the Balkans and Balkan conditions.
That is why the war, for which Austria-Hungary was responsible in 1914, surprised me as an event of world politics, even though, in a political, philosophical, and moral respect I was prepared for it. I accordingly formulated the whole dilemma with which the Habsburg Empire was faced. Either it would come to an end through losing the war, or it would come to an end in a social upheaval and a revolution after the war. And it was in accordance with this alternative that our arrangements had to be made.
Such were the considerations which guided my action from the beginning of the conflict to its end. Now that the fateful moment had arrived I began, with a calm mind, determined to go to any length and to sacrifice everything, to carry out a revolution.
