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Show How Bismarck H Made War M Tho matter Is Illustrated by the skillful maneuvering of Bfsmark preceding pre-ceding the war ot 1864 with Denmark ot 1866 with Austria, amf particularly particular-ly the war ot 1870 with France. How the cunning chancellor deprived France "of sympathy nnd the possible assistance of Great Br'Aaln is related by Hlsmarck in his reminiscences, and Is worth retelling at the p'esent time. The crisis with Franco rose over tho Spanish succession. Tho vacant throne had been offered to Leopold of Hohenzellern, and bo hud provisionally provi-sionally accepted. Fnnco, supported, by Great Urltalu protested, I.copo d then declined, und the lias's for dispute dis-pute was removed, ration to tho chagrin cha-grin of Hlsmarck. Then tho govern ment of Nnpoleon III, against tho advice ad-vice ot Great Britain, gut forth n pic-posterous, pic-posterous, Insulting demand. It asked ask-ed tho Piusslan king to bind htmsel nover again to consent to .Leopold's candidacy. King William, who was at Ems, and on whom tho demand had been personally mado by the French ambassador, properly refused nnd referred re-ferred further consideration ot tho matter to the Berlin foreign offlcu. Thu king's secretary Informed tno Berlin foreign office ot the Incident closing the telegram with the statement state-ment that BJsmuicic .might use his discretion the publication ot the demand de-mand and its rejection. Bismarck had Moltko and Boon to dinner that night. Now let Bismarck himself tell tho rest of the story: "I was informed thqt h message, was being deciphered. When the copy was handed to mo it showed th.it Ab-eken, Ab-eken, (tho king' secretary) hnd drawn up and signed tho tetcgrnm at lils majesty's command. I rend it out to my guests, wliiw dejection was so great that, they turned away from feed Mid diliiiv Ox a repcntVd est ntnlnatluu cf tho doument 1 llngci-ed llngci-ed upon tho nutliorlnt'oi ot bin mn esty, which IiumkIcI u command; ir.i med.ntcly to communicate Benedetto's Benedet-to's lrebli demand, tmd Its rrjectlon to our ambassadors and tho press. I put a few questions to Moltko as to tho extent ot his confldenco in tho stnto of our preparations. Ho answered an-swered that If thero was to be war Jio oxpected no advantage to us by deferring de-ferring Its outbreak. Under tho conviction con-viction thtit wnr could bo avoided only at tho cost of tho honor ot Prussia, I made uso of tho royal authorization au-thorization to publish tho contents of tho telegrnm and In tho prosenco of my two guests 1 reduced tho telegram tele-gram by striking out words, but with out adding or altering to tho following follow-ing form: "Aftor tho news of tho renunciation of the hereditary prince of Hohenzol-lern Hohenzol-lern had been ofllclnlty communlcnt-ed communlcnt-ed to the imperial govornnlent of Franco by tho royal government of Spain tho French ambassador further furth-er demanded of his majesty tho king that ho woifld authorlzo him to telo-graph telo-graph to Paris that his majesty tho king bound htmsolt for all futuro time never again to give his consent if tho Hohcnzollerns renewed tholr candidature. His majesty the king thereupon decided not to rccelvo tho French ambassador again and sent, to tell him through tho aide-de-camp on duty that his majesty had nothing more to communicate to- the ambaa- '' H f4f4fgl "The difference in the effent zy H the abbrevia'd the Ems tcie- H gram, as compared with that produc- ed by tho original, was not thu result stronger words, but the Which mado this announcement ap- sssLbLbsI pear decisive, while Abeken's version H would only have been regarded as a M fragment in a negotiation still pend ,H ing and to be continued at Berlin. After I had read out tho concentrat- H ed edition to my two guests Moltko bH "Now It has a Ulflerent iiiik: It sounded- beforo llko a parley; now It H Is like a flourish in answer to n clial- jH went un to In pB cutlon of his majesty's order, I at- H onco communlcnto this titt, which """""""ffl contains no alteration In or addition,. 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Boon snld: 'Our God ot old IJssBBBBfl still lives and will not let us perish IssBBBBBbI In dlsgraco." Illsmark, Reflections H and Reminiscences, II., pp. C9-101.. Tho French taking tho bait preel- r gfgH pltately declared war, thus alienating IH European sentiment, just ns Illsmark. H foreseen. jH This year whatever tho faults of the men responsible for tho conduct H of German affairs, It will not be con H tended that they havo been sqiam- FH lah nbout the general opinion of tho BBBBBBBBBbI world or that the have used Blsmar fl kian lndlscrctucss to fasten tho blnmo . jH of breaking tho pcaco on their udver-' H sarics. New York Globe. IbBBBBBBBBB |
