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Show DIPLOMATIC SI.VCERITT. It, is reported that Bismarck has announced an-nounced he will List consent to a violation viola-tion of the treaty of Paris by Russia. It is possible he may have said so ; it is barely possible he means so. Diplomatists Diplo-matists like Bismarck are not in the habit of expressing themselves very frankly on such important matters. They prefer to act on the idea involved in-volved in Talleyrand's famous saying, that language is given to man to conceal con-ceal his thoughts. If the statements of certain correspondents wore to he accepted, Bismarck must have become the most garrulous of statesmen, telling tell-ing his thoughts frcc'y to almost every correspondent around him. The opposite op-posite is nearer ibe fact. Ine great reason of his succ-ax, has been the admirable ad-mirable manner in which he has kept his plans profoundly proref until the lime for their execution. |