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this telegram, send two days before the outbreak of war, struck me as rather interesting:

Thanks for your telegram conciliatory and friendly. Whereas official message presented today by your ambassador to my minister was conveyed in a very different tone. Beg you to explain this divergency! It would be right to give over the Austro-Servian problem to the Hague conference. Trust in your wisdom and friendship. Your loving Nicky
So, could the Kaiser have followed his cousins advice and sought international arbitration ?

Assuming he could and did, how would things develop ?
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