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
If this disavowal were not made we should consider
it desirable that the matter should be taken up on the German side and
that those diplomatic documents should be published which show that
assistance was really given and in what manner, and that this was done
at the wish and request of the Versailles Government.”
_June 30th._--During the last few days again read a number of
interesting documents despatched and received. Tauffkirchen, the
Bavarian representative at the Curia, reported from Rome on the 21st
inst. that the Pope had spoken to him on the previous day of the danger
by which society was threatened by the Communists. “They are,” he said,
as he drove away some flies from his table, “like these insects. It is
no use to kill a few, still less to drive them away. General measures
must be taken to prevent their entrance and propagation.” Respecting
the removal of the Italian Government to Rome, a recent despatch says
that if the King proceeds thither the foreign representatives will
follow him in accordance with diplomatic custom. If the Minister for
Foreign Affairs were to reside there without the sovereign, it would
then depend upon the requirements of business whether, and for how
long, an envoy would go to Rome for purposes of personal communication.
France and Austria had instructed their representatives to follow the
Minister to Rome, irrespective of the circumstance whether Victor
Emmanuel went there or not; in that case, however, they were to take
leave of absence, leaving a substitute in charge. A despatch from
Waldersee, dated the 25th instant, contains the following sentence:
“It is not in the interest of the Empire that the different Federal
States should maintain separate envoys abroad. We may, however, await
their gradual disappearance as a work of time, and as the result of
the Budget debates in the several States.” According to a report from
Tauffkirchen, Prince Löwenstein-Heubach, who has gone to Rome on behalf
of the Clericals, threatened Cardinal Antonelli with the consequences
of any disavowal of the Centre party in the Reichstag.
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