Note 711 — Chapter XII

That treaty read in part as follows: “The two Governments declare that they will take counsel together upon every question of a nature to jeopardize the general peace; in case that peace should be threatened with an aggression, the two parties undertake to reach an understanding on the measures whose immediate and simultaneous adoption would be imposed upon the two Governments by the realization of this eventuality.” See Livre jaune: L’alliance franco-russe, p. 16, No. 17, annexe; Pribram, The Secret Treaties of Austria-Hungary, II, 213; Bernadotte E. Schmitt, “Triple Alliance and Triple Entente, 1902-1914,” American Historical Review, XXIX, 459 f.