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
“In conclusion, if we trusted too much to our memory in some details
of minor importance, and misunderstood insult for libel or Ministers
for members of a High Consistory, we must in future be more careful to
label correctly the various specimens in our collection.”
During this week I received from Bucher nearly a dozen letters with
suggestions, warnings, explanations and supplementary matter, but
principally with raw material for further articles connected with the
three subjects treated above. On the 27th of April he sent me over two
sheets of material for the article, “A Branch of the _Bonbonnière_,
or the Causes of the Change at Baden.” He added: “I can only give you
the ideas without any indication of the style in which they should
be expressed. I feel that it will be difficult to put it into proper
shape.” On the 30th I received from him the warning: “Do not on any
account take up with the _Post_. It is intimately connected with R.
D. Z. (Radowitz), one of the _Bonbonnière_ circle.” On the 3rd of May
he presented me in the person of the widowed Queen of Bavaria with
“still another flower to be added to your garland of ladies.” On the
6th he wrote: “I would strongly advise you not to publish the article
(‘The Angel of Peace’) in the next number, 1. Gamaliel (the Chief) will
be here on the 10th, and will stay for some days, and he would thus
find himself right in the heart of the excitement which it is sure to
cause, and that would certainly be unpleasant for him. From here he
will proceed to his watering place, where he will be quite out of touch
with the world. 2. In a few days an incident will become known which
seems as if it were specially made to account for the publication of
such an article, and which will surprise many who might otherwise feel
disposed to criticise it. Perhaps in the meantime as a stopgap you can
use the suggestions in my last letter and some older materials. Or it
might be better still to have a pause. One should not spoil the public,
or it may easily grow too exacting and look for the same spicy fare
every week, which you would not be able to provide.” On the 13th he
reported: “The patient (he meant the Chief) proposes to go direct to
the watering place without touching at B. (Berlin). This I consider to
be certain. He thinks of starting on Thursday, but that is uncertain.
If I ascertain any change by Tuesday I will telegraph to your wife:
‘Fritz better, is to go out on such and such a day for the first time.
Anna’--or, ‘Fritz must remain here during his holidays.’”
The _Grenzboten_ now published the fifth “friction article,” which ran
as follows:--
“The Angel of Peace.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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