Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bismarck was extremely anxious that the text of the Treaty of Berlin should remain secret until the last possible moment. Months in advance De Blowitz had set to work to gain an ascendancy over one of the Iron Chancellor's secretaries. The secretary placed the information which De Blowitz desired in the lining of his own hat, and each day the rotund correspondent sought and found what he wanted in the dark checkroom of the restaurant at which he and the secretary dined-carefully apart. It is history that the Times secured a "beat" over every other newspaper...
Historians noted that, during the 74 years of Queen Margherita's life, the Kingdom of Italy was created out of a group of petty states. During that period the great Mazzini "watered the ideal of a united Italy with the blood of martyrs." Coincidentally Count Cavour, famed "Bismarck of the Princes of Piedmont," built up their power until his bluff, hearty master, Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Sardinia, became the first King of a united Italy. His son, later Umberto I, married the Princess Margherita, and their reign began in 1878 and ended in 1900. Since then the widowed Queen...
Subsequent despatches gravely reported: "The Prince of Wales is much perturbed over the loss of a highly treasured inkstand which he used constantly aboard the Repulse." Queried many: How lest? Did he throw it, when annoyed, like Prince Bismarck?* Like George Washington?† Like Martin Luther...
Members of the Prince's suite declared that Edward of Wales is not as violent as Bismarck, Washington, Luther. Said they: "He has kept a diary of all his trips. . . . His comments are extremely interesting, not to say frank. Unfortunately, for reasons of state, it can probably never be published...
...when Bismarck's iron mastiffs were seeking quiet kennels wherein to rest after their leap on France, Richard Wagner looked for a place to make a home for his old age. He chose Bayreuth-a village three hours by train from Nürnberg, visited by few tourists. With the help of Ludwig, King of Bavaria, he built his theatre-an enormous mousetrap to which the world soon began to beat a path. Nearby, he built his house...