... the Serbian Minister in Vienna - Jovan Jovanovic. Jovanovic was a man who held deep rooted extremist and pan-Serb views. Jovanovic did get along notably better with the Minister of Finance, Dr. Leon von Bilinski. Jovanovic made a subtle hint to Bilinski that it might be well that Franz Ferdinand were not to go to Sarejevo. "Some young Serb might put a live rather ... gun and fire it." Bilinski was not a man accustomed to hearing such vague diplomatic talk, and entirely missed the subtle warning. "Let us hope nothing does happen." Jovanovic suspected that Dr. Bilinski had not understood ...

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