Studies in Diplomacy: From the French of Count Benedetti

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Macmillan and Company, 1896 - 323 sidor
 

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Sida lxvii - You will permit me, Prince Bismarck, to point out to you that your policy has placed Europe under the necessity of arming — of arming incessantly and beyond measure; and that the nations live in terror of immense, frightful catastrophes which some fortuitous event may suddenly cause to explode, notwithstanding the prudence of the various governments. To maintain this sad state of affairs, the people stagger beneath a burden of taxation which is out of all proportion to the economic resources of...
Sida 303 - Gramont telegraphed to Benedetti: " If this renunciation is to have full effect, it seems to me essential that the King of Prussia should associate himself with it and give us the assurance that never again will he agree to this candidature.
Sida 63 - ... chose to say, that it was the one act done by the English government in favour of peace. They suggested to Bismarck that as the King of Prussia had consented to the acceptance by Prince Leopold of the Spanish crown, and had thereby, in a certain sense, become a party to the arrangement, so he might with perfect dignity communicate to the French government his consent to the withdrawal of the acceptance, if France waived her demand for an engagement covering the future. This suggestion Bismarck...
Sida 305 - ... the letter from which I have already quoted, and which I think it well to give in its entirety : — " Thinking over our conversations of to-day and reading Prince Anthony's telegram again, I see we must confine ourselves to giving additional emphasis to the despatch you have of course sent to Benedetti, by laying stress on the following points : — "i. We are dealing with Prussia and not with Spain.
Sida 25 - In construing a statute, reference must be had to the object to be attained and the means to be employed. It will not be presumed that the Legislature attempted to authorize a proceeding unreasonable in itself.
Sida 104 - Later on, war will cost the two nations a hundred thousand men more. To prevent its becoming a war of extermination we must have it at once. It is not only as a commander and a German that I say this, it is also as a man and a Christian.
Sida lvii - Europe. 1 reminded him that there existed treaties, and that the war which he desired to avert would be the first result of such a policy. M. de Bismarck replied that 1 was mistaken.
Sida 287 - Hohenzollern's renunciation is announced, communicated, or transmitted to you by the King of Prussia or his Government. This is of the utmost importance to us. The King's participation should, at any price, be consented to by him or result from the facts in a tangible manner.
Sida 306 - ... 4. It is therefore necessary that Benedetti should insist, as he has been instructed to do, upon having a reply by which the King would undertake, for the future, not to permit Prince Leopold , who has made no promise, to follow his brother's example and start, one fine day, for Spain.

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