Word: castlereaghs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Emperor made his last futile effort, in the famous Hundred Days, to recapture the glory that had been his France. After Wellington put an end to that dream at Waterloo, the leaders of Europe's Quadruple Alliance -Czar Alexander I of Russia, Frederick William III of Prussia, Lord Castlereagh of Britain and, above all, Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich of Austria -were free to determine in Vienna the future of the Continent...
...Europe, rewarding the states that defeated Napoleon with new territories and restoring ruling families, like the Bourbons, to thrones from which they had been ousted by the French Revolution and Bonaparte's conquests. The Final Act, signed in an unostentatious ceremony on June 9, 1815, created what Castlereagh called "a great machine of European safety" that was to endure, more or less intact, for 40 years. It was a supremely conservative document, reflecting its signatories' belief that aristocratic authority would ensure stability, and that the then radical ideas about liberalism, democracy and nationalism would lead inevitably to chaos...
...this ever-struggling world of Charlie "Metternich" Finely, Baron von Kroc (the Padres's mastermind of realpolitik) and Bob "Castlereagh" Short (since ousted from his Texas kingdom), the balance of power explains all. After a long winter season of pacts which guarantee support from the lackey ballplayers, baseball begins its annual summer campaign in early April. Once the campaign begins, cityteams continually battle to stay ahead, clashing as frequently as four or five times a week during those hot months of July and August...
...political thinking was contained in his Ph.D. thesis, written in 1954 and later published under the title, A World Restored: The Politics of Conservatism in a Revolutionary Age. In it, he discussed the diplomatic deals and maneuvers by which a handful of foreign ministers-particularly Metternich and Viscount Castlereagh-restructured post-Napoleonic Europe and set the course of history for more than a century. In A World Restored, Kissinger argued that "stability based on an equilibrium of forces" was ultimately responsible for the relative calm of Europe in the decades preceding World War I. His fascination, however, lay clearly...
...When the unity of Europe came to pass, it was not because of the self, evidence of its necessity, as Castlereagh had imagined, but through a cynical use of the conference machinery to define a legitimizing principle of social repression; not through Castlereagh's good faith, but through Metternich's manipulation...