Vienna Palace was thoroughly flabbergasted upon receiving the news of the refugee crisis erupting.
There was no helping it; the news was simply too astonishing. One must know that Belgium and the Rhineland region were at the heart of Europe, not some irrelevant backwater.
It was imaginable that once the news spread, all the diplomatic efforts previously made by the French government would go down the drain. Even their allies, the British, would start to view the Paris Government in a different light.
Having been immersed in politics for many years, Franz had become very resilient and quickly came to his senses.
"Is the news confirmed? Are the refugees truly a result of the French expelling the locals and not a consequence of the war?"
The creation of refugees by war and the expulsion of locals are two drastically different concepts—the former is inevitable, while the latter signifies the ambitions of France.
