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 — John Shaqi
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
According to a report from Munich, the influential Cabinet Councillor
Eisenhart, and the Ministers Von Lutz and Von Schlör, manifest a
leaning towards the Döllinger movement, and if the latter should
develop a tendency to form a community of “Old Catholics”--that is to
say, of those who do not accept the dogma of Papal infallibility--the
Government would be prepared to protect them in their rights of
property. Read a letter from Switzerland, which has been sent to our
Minister at Berne with the remark that it has come from a shrewd
observer. The letter says that the Germans were themselves in fault
for the disorders at the Peace Celebration in Zurich. They had bragged
of successes for which they had not fought; and, indeed, up to the
present, they had been mere parasites. If the “respectable” Swiss press
now confirm the reports of these Germans who put everything in a false
light, that is due in the first place to the Liberal party, which wants
to make capital out of the affair against the democratic element, and
in the second place to the Gothard party, which is acting with the
former, and which fears that for some reason Germany may withdraw from
the promotion of the Tunnel project.
_April 20th._--We hear from Vienna that Beust is trying to draw nearer
to the Hohenwart and Klerhalm Ministry, as there is now a power in the
public life of Austria which is stronger than the Imperial Chancellor,
and which, although it now spares him, could at a later moment bring
about his fall. Many things which now happen probably have their origin
in the Cabinet of the Emperor, and are therefore due to Herr von Braun,
who is married to a Frankfurt lady, and who is in regular intercourse
with the ex-Senator Bernus, who, in turn, has frequent meetings with
Frese. Among the drafts is an instruction to W. in Munich, dated the
18th instant, which runs as follows: “In my telegram of the 7th I
referred to the attitude of the Clericals in the Reichstag, where their
hostility to the Imperial Government is becoming more evident from
day to day. At first it might have been expected that the party which
was being formed, even if it had a strongly Catholic tendency, would
not subordinate all political questions to sectarian differences, but
would, to some extent, join with the Imperial Government upon the basis
of Conservative principles and the honourable promotion of the common
national interests, supporting it in the same way as the strictly
orthodox wing of the Evangelical Church has done, without sacrificing
their independence. In consequence of this expectation, the Government
had observed a friendly attitude towards the party, and in the debate
on the Address had avoided any rejoinder to the plea openly put forward
for German intervention in Italy, in order to leave free play to the
expression of the various aspirations and views. That debate, and still
more those that followed on the introduction of certain fundamental
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