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gered the amicable relations for the observation of which the Royal Government had solemnly obliged itself through the declaration of March 31st, 1909. The Government ... identical with the demanded text. _The formula as demanded by Austria reads_: "_The Royal Government regrets that Servian officers and functionaries ... have participated_...." _Also with this formula and the further addition "according to the declaration of the I. and R. Government", the Servian Government pursues the object, already indicated above, to preserve a free hand for the future_. The Royal Government binds itself further: 1. During the next regular meeting of the Skuptschina to embody in the press laws a clause, to wit, that the incitement to hatred of, and contempt for, the monarchy is to be must severely punished, as well as every publication whose general tendency is directed against the territorial integrity of Austria-Hungary. It binds itself in view of the coming revision of the constitution to embody an amendment into Art. 22 of the constitutional law which permits the confiscation of such publications as is at present impossible according to the clear definition of Art. 22 of the constitution. _Austria had demanded_: _1. To suppress every publication which incites to hatred and contempt for the monarchy, and whose tendency is directed against the territorial integrity of the monarchy._ _We wanted to bring about the obligation for Servia to take care that such attacks of the press would cease in the future._ _Instead Servia offers to pass certain laws which are meant as means towards this end, viz.:_ _a) A law according to which the expressions of the press hostile to the monarchy can be individually punished, a matter, which is immaterial to us, all the more so, as the individual prosecution of press intrigues is very rarely possible and as, with a lax enforcement of such laws, the few cases of this nature would not be punished. The proposition, therefore, does not meet our demand in any way, and it offers not the least guarantee for the desired success._ _b) An amendment to Art. 22 of the constitution, which would permit confiscation, a proposal, which does not satisfy us, as the existence of such a law in Servia is of no use to us. For we want the obligation of the Government to enforce it and that has not been promised us._ _These proposals are therefore entirely unsatisfactory and evasive as we ar
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