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
_March 7th._--According to a report from Stuttgart of the 3rd instant,
the King a few days ago invited his Ministers to dinner, and said
openly at table that the Queen had written to him that Prince Bismarck
had, in conversation with her, expressed himself in favour of the
maintenance of the Würtemberg Legations. He asked, therefore, why
the Paris post should not be kept up. The King assumed, therefore,
that there was no objection on the part of Prussia to the renewal
of diplomatic relations between Würtemberg and France, and that he
also would now receive a French envoy. Suckow described this as a
misunderstanding. The Chief, however, said to-day with reference
to his interview with Queen Olga, which, he said, had lasted some
hours, that she finally asked if the Ministry for Foreign Affairs at
Stuttgart should be maintained. “I contented myself with replying
that Würtemberg, under the Imperial Constitution, had both active and
passive rights with respect to diplomatic representation, and that
we could not attempt to interfere with them. It was not a fitting
opportunity to enter into the question whether it was in the interest
of the Empire and of Würtemberg to exercise those rights, particularly
as her Majesty did not mention diplomatic intercourse with France,
which must form the main consideration in any such discussion. Paris
was not mentioned in the course of the conversation.”
A St. Petersburg report of the 29th of February informs the Chief
that “a correspondence is being kept up with Munich, and indeed with
the Royal residence itself, through Richard Wagner, the composer,
who is living in Switzerland.” This correspondence referred to the
connection between the International and the Russian Nihilists. General
Lewascheff, who was entrusted with the task of following up this
connection in Paris and elsewhere, described Wagner as being altogether
a very dangerous man, who made the worst possible use of his relations
with King Lewis. The correspondence in question went by way of Berlin.
This information was given as “very secret” by the Emperor Alexander.
It is doubtless a mare’s nest, like much more that is related of the
International, or still more probably an invention of the Russian
police, the object of these weighty discoveries being gold snuff-boxes,
decorations and such-like _douceurs_. (...)
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