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
_November 13th._--A report from St. Petersburg, addressed to the
Emperor William and dated the 8th instant, which reached here
yesterday, through safe hands, states: “His Majesty the Emperor
graciously communicated to me the letter which your Imperial Majesty
sent through Prince Frederick Charles. The passage respecting the
meeting at Salzburg was specially emphasised by the Emperor, who
remarked that what your Majesty had said as to the efforts of the
press to represent the good understanding between the two Powers as
being at an end was unfortunately too true; but that this, as I knew,
could exercise no influence upon his sentiments. The Emperor also gave
me the memoir of the Grand Duchess Marie on the negotiations with
Count Fleury to read. This document, which is probably the work of M.
Duvernois, and was handed to the Grand Duchess by Fleury for her use,
the Tsar considers to have been skilfully drawn up. The advocate of
the dethroned Emperor pleads his case cleverly in trying to convince
the German Emperor that the indemnity is in danger so long as the
present state of things continues in France; and that Germany should,
therefore, strongly urge a plebiscite as the sole remedy. He then went
on to say that Fleury constantly spoke of a strong Government, which
was only to be had under the Empire. But who would guarantee that, with
the return of the Empire, it would be possible once more to find the
strong hand to which Europe certainly had reason to be grateful at the
beginning of the fifties? If the French wished to hold another general
election in order to decide upon a definitive form of government,
by all means let them do so. That was their affair, and not that of
foreign Powers, which had nothing to do in the matter.
“It was in this sense that the Emperor spoke with regard to Fleury’s
proposals. In my opinion his Majesty will pay very little heed to
proposals for a Bonapartist restoration. The trouble taken by his
illustrious sister to interest him in this, her favourite scheme, is
likely to be wasted.”
_November 16th._--We hear from a well-informed source at Lemberg
that the society “Opielka Narodowa” (National Protection), which
has undertaken to establish and maintain the connection between
the numerous emigrants from Poland and their old homes, under the
control of Valerian Podlewski, is constantly increasing in numbers
and influence. A branch society for Eastern Galicia has been founded
in Cracow under the leadership of Byglewski, the president of the
so-called Siberian Committee, which provides for the Poles who return
from Siberia, and which is now to be affiliated to the Opielka. The
society has already established branches in twenty-six districts.
The Opielka Narodowa exercises strict supervision over the emigrants
resident in Galicia, and is in direct communication with all the
emigrant committees in England, France, Belgium, and Switzerland, thus
forming a connecting link between them.
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