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...attitude and policies regarding the German states, for example, actually helped drive the Teutonic princes together. As a result, Napoleon helped lay the foundation for German nationalism and France's conqueror, Bismarck...
Noting Kissinger's admiration for Bismarck, Hughes observed that the two men shared three characteristics: "their similar personal attributes, their special sense of sincerity, and their addiction for compensatory politics," that is, persuading liberals to carry out conservative policies and conservatives to adopt liberal stances. As for sincerity, Hughes used the term somewhat sarcastically: "In his study on Bismarck, Kissinger is full of intuitive insight: 'Sincerity has meaning only in reference to a standard of truth of conduct. The root fact of Bismarck's personality, however, was his incapacity to comprehend any such standard outside his will...
...earliest books-Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, The Necessity for Choice and The Troubled Partnership-all called for balancing military power in order to achieve greater international stability. A 1968 study of Bismarck, whom Kissinger admires for his grasp of geopolitical realities, argued the importance of restraining contending forces by manipulating their antagonisms and of moving decisively to carry out policy decisions. "A policy that awaits events," wrote Kissinger, "is likely to become their prisoner...
...boulevards are busy and complex. Only in a few places do they retain a processional grandeur: down the combined lengths of the Bismarck Strasse and the Strasse of the 17th of June the streetlights strain to curve out from the edge of the surrounding Tiergarten forest to cover the width. Between avenues, the marble base of the Victory Column is polished and despite its war scars reflects the misty recession of lights toward the Brandenburg Gate. What look like splotches of mud on the old classical gate houses flanking the avenues reveal themselves on second glances as shell pits...
...fisted beer drinking labor negotiator to keep his opponents off-balance. He took over a splintered Faculty in 1970 and in the next several years knit the deeply-rooted divisions back together, sending independent-minded reformers either into disarray or scurrying for the center. As Otto von Bismarck had once manipulated German liberals into supporting his reunification efforts, so did Harvard's Iron Chancellor unite most of the Faculty, restoring a certain reverence for his office that had been absent for some time. Even most of Dunlop's erstwhile liberal opponents capitulated out of respect for his skillful blending...