Bismarck

Bismarck, by Moritz Busch, contains an entry dated 1873. January 1st, noting a communication from Stuttgart about the cause of the dismissal of Baron von Egloffstein, till recently President of King Charles’s Cabinet. In October, 1872, the German Reichscorrespondenz, the organ of the Aegidi group, published a commentary on Herr von Keudell’s mission to Stamboul, which says it is well known that Herr von Keudell is one of Bismarck’s most intimate and confidential friends.

The text records the remark that it is in our interest if they should fall out with the French, and when the latter are busy in Tunis they cease to think of the Rhine frontier. On the German representative at the Vatican, the text says that in the present instance the aim cannot for a moment be to persuade or win over the head of the Catholic Church. The first task of the representative of Germany at the Vatican would doubtless be to prevent the Pope from being misled, the text says.