545
   financial backing for Serbia 29â31, 33, 38, 43, 46â7, 100, 276, 357
   foreign ministry 190â96, 230, 240, 303â4, 309
   Franco-German Moroccan Agreement (1909) 167, 195, 196, 204
   Franco-Russian Alliance (1892-94) 123, 127â31, 132, 138, 139, 143â4, 153â4, 191, 293â4, 304â8, 313, 350â51, 444, 475, 505â6, 548, 557, 559
   German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine 124, 131, 133, 135, 294
   German invasion 532, 547â8
   loans to Russia 308, 312, 332, 352, 419â20
   âNationalist Revivalâ 295, 302
   preparations for war 500, 502â3, 538
   press 228, 229, 230â31, 232, 234â5, 406, 419â20
   Prinetti-Barrère Accord (1902) 155, 244
   railways 331
   see also French army; French navy
France (battleship) 438, 440, 441, 442, 447, 449, 471, 498, 501
Franco-Prussian War (1870) 121, 124, 136
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria:
   assassination see separate entry below
   and Balkan Wars 289, 291, 292
   character 370, 379, 395â6
   construction of power base 107â8
   declaration of war on Serbia (28 July 1914) 469
   domestic reform programme 108â9
   foreign policies 109â110, 112, 116â17, 183, 224, 394, 406
   heir to Habsburg throne 48â9, 101, 106, 370
   marriage 106â7, 370, 380
   meetings with Kaiser Wilhelm 289, 291, 400
   public opinion of 379â81, 406, 407
   relations with Berchtold 395â6
   relations with Emperor Franz Joseph 106â7, 404
   requiem service 431
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, assassination 367â76
   international reactions 381, 404â412, 417â18, 431, 445, 490
   official investigations 381â6, 390â91, 402, 424, 445, 453â4, 465, 466
   the plot 47â64, 73â4, 369, 385â6, 454â5
   press coverage 380â81, 387â9, 405â6, 417, 424
   reactions in Austria 376â81, 386â8, 391â403, 405, 453â4, 455
   reactions in Serbia 387â91, 405, 408, 424
Franz Joseph, Emperor:
   and assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 396â7, 400, 404
   character and family 72
   defence of Compromise of 1867 108â9
   dismissal and reinstatement of Conrad von Hötzendorf 105, 110, 291
   Hoyos mission to Berlin (July 1914) 400, 401, 412â13, 414, 415
   and July 1914 crisis 400, 401, 468, 515, 520
   public and political role 72â3, 100â101, 183
   and winter crisis 1912-13 269
Frederick II, King of Prussia 143
Fremdenblatt (newspaper) 60
French army:
   expenditure 217â18, 219, 331, 332, 333, 440â41
   military service 217, 218, 223, 238, 292, 311
   mobilization 503, 538
   reorganization and redeployment 222, 223â4, 308â9
   size 308, 331, 332, 350â51
   see also Humbert report (1914); Three Year Law
French Indochina 134, 139
French navy 143, 144, 544
Franco-Russian Naval Convention (1912) 131, 304, 540
Frere, Sir Bartle 173
Freud, Sigmund 470
Friedjung, Heinrich, treason trial 88â90, 99, 231, 260, 408, 445, 454
GaÄinoviÄ, Vladimir 42, 55
Galicia 70, 71, 266, 269, 425, 479, 499, 514
GaraÅ¡anin, Ilija 21â2, 24, 26, 28
   NaÄertanije 21, 22, 569 n 37
Gardiner, Alfred George 492
Geiss, Imanuel 560
Gellinek, Otto 95â6, 97, 100, 114
GenÄiÄ, Djordje 8, 12
George V, King 173, 174â5, 200, 321, 339, 528â9, 532, 533, 535
Géraud, André 537
Gerde, Edmund 367
German Empire:
   annexation of Alsace-Lorraine 124,