Bismarck : $b some secret pages of his history (Vol. 2 of 3). Being a diary kept by Dr. Moritz Busch during twenty-five years' official and private intercourse with the great ChancellorBusch, Moritz
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Bismarck : $b some secret pages of his history (Vol. 2 of 3). Being a diary kept by Dr. Moritz Busch during twenty-five years' official and private intercourse with the great Chancellor
Busch, Moritz
Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898
_January 26th._--A report from Lemberg, dated the 21st instant, on the
secret agitation of the Galician Poles, says: “The National Committee
here, of which Prince Sapieha is the President, has three political
news agencies--one for Hungary, one for Posen and Bohemia, and one
for the Kingdom of Poland. Prince Czartoryski is at the head of the
Hungarian agency and Dr. Smolka of the agency for Bohemia and Posen,
while in the Kingdom of Poland it is controlled by Ignatius Lemwitz,
who is giving the young Poles a military training.”
_February 2nd._--In connection with Arnim’s communication respecting
certain correspondents of the _Kreuzzeitung_ who had made themselves
obnoxious, the Chief reported to the Emperor through Abeken that the
newspaper in question would be warned to be more careful. It was,
however, hardly to be expected that this would lead to any improvement,
as the _Kreuzzeitung_ is in general not easily influenced by the
Government, while in this instance the person indicated by Count Arnim
as the writer of the objectionable article, has been closely connected
with the paper for nearly twenty years, and has considerable influence
on its Paris intelligence, although he is known to the Chief from
previous personal intercourse as of very moderate political ability.
_February 7th._--R. in St. Petersburg writes that he recently had a
conversation with M. de Strenavukoff, the Director of the Asiatic
Department, in the course of which the latter went so far as to
assert that the only way of dealing with Rumania would be--after a
preliminary understanding between the neighbouring Powers, such as was
usual in similar cases--for one of them to receive a mandate to occupy
the country. R. continues as follows: “On my pointing out to him that
he proposed to do exactly that which he had always so strongly urged us
to avoid, namely, to break the Treaty of Paris, he replied that such
a measure could only be adopted as a last resource. France no longer
existed, and if Germany, Russia and Austria were united, England would
raise no objections.” The letter describes this as a “gushing outburst
of the Director of the Asiatic Department.” The Emperor Alexander has
expressed his approval of the course taken by the Berlin Government in
the matter of the Inspection of Schools Bill, regretting, however, that
it should have fallen out with the Conservative party over this measure.
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