This ideal, however, will not be attained--no ideal is attainable; but it will be brought very much nearer.

Might or Right, the one alone can conquer.
But Czechs, Poles and others cannot be freed while at the same time Tyrolese-Germans, Alsatian-Germans and Transylvanian-Hungarians are handed over to foreign states.

It cannot be done from the point of view of justice or with any hope of its being permanent.

Versailles and St.Germain have proved that it can be done by might, and as a temporary measure.
The solution of the question of nationality was the point round which all Franz Ferdinand's political interests were centred during his lifetime.

Whether he would have succeeded is another question, but he certainly did try.