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
_October 10th._--Arnim recently (date not noted) sent the Chancellor
a rather lengthy statement of his opinion that Thiers should not be
supported any longer, as he was only strengthening France for the
benefit of Gambetta. He also hinted that we might give our support
to others, in which case there would be plenty to make overtures to
us. The Ambassador said he had severed his connection with B., who
had shown himself quite incapable, but he was now employing another
agent of the same description, who seemed in general to justify the
confidence placed in his cleverness and powers of hearing. Prince
Czartoryski had recommended to his political friends in the province
of Posen, as Parliamentary candidate, the parish priest of Zduny,
a man of strong clerical and nationalist sentiments, and a friend
of Kozmian. Further, a French political agent, named Orlowski, was
stationed at Dantzig, where he passed himself off as a commercial
traveller. Samuel, the Chief of the French Secret Police, was now
staying at Lunéville. Ladislaus Witkowski, a Jesuit, who spent several
years in Rome, and who was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour on
Czartoryski’s recommendation, had been sent by the Prince to the Grand
Duchy of Posen, in order to promote an agitation among the peasantry.
Witkowski was thirty-eight years of age, tall and stout, grows a
beard, and wears plain clothes. He would probably put up at Kozmian’s.
In Paris, he resided with the Jesuit, Jelowicki, who has recently
paid several visits to Posen, and appeared to act as a channel for
communication between Rome and the Grand Duchy. Witkowski might also
have instructions from Samuel.
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