British Policy and Opinion During the Franco-Prussian War

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Columbia university, 1921 - 437 sider

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Side 269 - While I more and more feel the deep culpability of France, I have an apprehension that this violent laceration and transfer is to lead us from bad to worse, and to be the beginning of a new series of European complications.
Side 337 - Not a single principle in the management of our foreign affairs, accepted by all statesmen for guidance up to six months ago, any longer exists.
Side 31 - Granville] that it is quite right that we should not now mix ourselves up in the question, and that Prussia should at least be made aware of what she and her Government, and every honest man in Europe, must think of the gross and unblushing violation of every assurance and pledge that she had given, which Prussia has been guilty of.
Side 384 - The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.
Side 361 - We have thus arrived at the end of the glorious and bloody war which has been forced upon us by the frivolity of the French. Prussia will never forget that she owes it to you that the war did not enter upon extreme dimensions. May God bless you for it ! Yours till death, WILLIAM.
Side 61 - He told me that the extreme moderation evinced by the King of Prussia under the menacing tone of the French Government, and the courteous reception by His Majesty of Count Benedetti at Ems,- after the severe language held to Prussia, both officially and in the French Press, was producing throughout Prussia general indignation.
Side 34 - Count Daru did not accept that reply as definitive, and on the 13th February wrote to the Marquis de la Valette as follows : "I hope that Lord Clarendon will not take that answer as final and will not be discouraged.
Side 29 - As soon as the army shall have been brought into such a condition as to inspire respect, I shall seize the first best pretext to declare war against Austria, dissolve the German Diet, subdue the minor States, and give national unity to Germany under Prussian leadership. I have come here to say this to the Queen's Ministers.' Disraeli's commentary on this programme, which has since been carried out step by step, was, ' Take care of that man ! He means what he says.
Side 29 - I shall soon', said in effect the Prussian statesman, 'be compelled to undertake the conduct of the Prussian Government. My first care will be to reorganize the army, with or without the help of the Landtag.
Side 62 - Gazette, to the effect that the French ambassador had requested the king to promise never to allow a Hohenzollern to be a candidate for the throne of Spain, and that his Majesty had thereupon refused to receive the ambassador, and sent him word by an aide-de-camp that he had nothing more to say to him.

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