Show diplomacy one day the austrian ambassador to the federal diet count Rc chberg received a dispatch instructing him to vote with prussia for a certain imper tant measure accompanied with a confidential letter directing him to induce the representatives of the other german states to vote measure and thus defeat it in his baste he handed the wrong paper to bismarck who read and returned it with the remark there must be some mistake here kochberg Kc chberg saw bis blunder and grew pale and excited dont be disturbed said bismarck you did not intend to give me this document and therefore you have not given ii to me and I 1 am wholly ignorant ign of its contents in fact he made no mention of it in his official reports and thus won Rech bergs gratitude besides haying him henceforth on the hip |