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
_June 16th._--A despatch addressed to the Imperial Chancellor from St.
Petersburg on the 10th instant says: “I have only been able to have
a very short conversation with Count P. Schuvaloff since his return
from Karlsbad. He thanked me once more for having been the means of
obtaining for him the very interesting interview which he had with
your Serene Highness. According to what he said on this subject, he
received the impression that your Serene Highness quite dissociated
the labour question from the treatment of the International. The
former should be thoroughly studied, and regulated as far as possible
by legislative action. At the same time, he did not think your Serene
Highness considered it desirable to take energetic measures against the
latter just now. Your whole attention was absorbed in the struggle with
the Catholic Church, and it appeared to him that your Serene Highness
did not wish unnecessarily to turn against the Government so useful a
weapon as the Socialist movement might ultimately prove to be against
clerical encroachments. Count Schuvaloff found no confirmation whatever
in the conversation which he had with your Serene Highness for the
supposition circulated here by Prince Gortschakoff that your Serene
Highness was opposed to a friendly understanding between Rome and
Russia.”
According to another report of the same date, “Gortschakoff had
accepted Antonelli’s assurances (see above), and had not signed
the protest proposed by Prussia against the title of Primate”
(Ledochowski’s), Tolstoi, the Minister of Education, had “remonstrated”
with him for not doing so, and “most strongly urged him to act in
concert with Prussia.”
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