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Show Blow to Austria's Supremacy. It used to be the privilege of Austria's Aus-tria's representative, at any conference confer-ence of representatives of the German states, to smoke, the others refraining. This was supposed to-be an acknowledgement acknowl-edgement of Austria's supremacy. At the first conference that Bismarck attended at-tended as Prussia's representative he began to puff smoke across the conference confer-ence table as soon as the Austrian diplomat dip-lomat lit up. That set everybody present pres-ent to smoking on equal terms and -Austria's supremacy got a blow. |