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History affords few opportunities for a more interesting comparison than that of the unification of Italy with the unification of Germany, and the life of Cavour with that of Bismarck. Until the middle of the last century Italy and Germany were, as has been well said, merely geographic expressions. How these "expressions" were made to apply to more than geography is a fascinating if somewhat unedifying story...
Much the some problem, it is true con-confronted Cavour and Bismarck, but it is in the difference of treatment, and particularly in the history of the two nations in the years immediately after their unification that the chief interest lies. "Italy's appetite", said Bismarck, "had grown before its teeth." He saw to it that Germany grew teeth first...
Since 1923, when an assassin fired upon him, seeking to kill the Bismarck of Serbia, the windows of the limousine have been of bulletproof glass...
...possession of the right statistics he can prove almost anything. Some of the latest significant figures have been brought to light in Prussia where it is shown that out of more than a thousand schools 136 are named for the Hohenzolierns, 12 for Schiller, 10 for Goethe Hindenburg and Bismarck and only two for Martin Luther. This is indeed an important revelation and one which should do much to throw light on world affairs. It clearly demonstrates in the first place that a Hohenzollerns revival is immanent or that there were a good number of Hohenzollerns after whom schools could...
Once there was a little Victorian boy whose father wanted him to become a great statesman. He was sent to Rugby, to aristocratic Trinity College, Cambridge. Then, in order that he might meet statesmen who really mattered, he went to Germany. He became almost intimate with Bismarck, a great feat for a stripling. The Kaiser himself was reported to have listened without displeasure to the conversation of young Austen Chamberlain...