The negotiations, intended to place the Archduke MAXIMILIAN on the throne of GUATEMOZIN ... has discovered that Austria will give no territory in exchange for the appanage of her Archduke ...

The protagonist is Maximilian of Habsburg, a fairly decent man unlucky enough to be the younger brother of Franz Joseph, who became emperor of Austria and King of Hungary ... And, as Shawcross writes, ...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to events that meant even if people didn’t want to fight, they had made promises which had to be kept. 28th July 1914 – Austria-Hungary ...