Word: metternichs
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...Russia alone that had conquered Bonaparte. But when the citizens of Paris looked for the other Allied leaders, they looked in vain. Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Castlereagh, Austria's Emperor Francis I and his Foreign Minister Metternich were dallying in distant Dijon; King Frederick William of Prussia was off tobogganing. Bonaparte was defeated; but the victors' sturdy unity was already succumbing to mutual anxiety, suspicion, self-seeking, and secretiveness...
...Common Aim. ". . . At every international conference," says Nicolson bluntly, "it is the duty of a Minister, first o defend and further the interests of his jwn country, and secondly to adjust those nterests to the requirements of the community of nations." Alexander, Metternich, Castlereagh-the Big Three-were no more "cynical or selfish . . . than their successors of 1919 or 1946. Their common aim was to secure the stability, and herefore the peace, of Europe...
...Italy," said Prince Metternich at the Congress of Vienna, "is only a geographical expression." At any peace conference, the people who happen to live in disputed areas are apt to be mere political and geographic symbols. Yet every hill and valley has its majorities and minorities, its dead heroes and live arguments, its habits, slogans and heartaches. From Trieste last week TIME Correspondent Robert Low cabled a close scrutiny of Venezia Giulia...
...Congress of Vienna convenes in 1815 (though it looks suspiciously like the Foreign Ministers Conference in Paris, 1946). Wellington, Talleyrand and Alexander, Czar of all the Russias, are about to sit down to a game of cards with Austria's Metternich. Cries the Czar: "Austria play cards on an equal basis with the big powers? Impossible...
...been better than his World War I service as an intelligence officer ("Nothing secret about it! Just questioning prisoners!"). It had almost satisfied his romantic dreams of 1925, when, as a new correspondent in Vienna, he had stood in awe before the Chancellery on the Ballhaus Platz, where Metternich had planned his tricks. "The very address," he wrote later with characteristic Gedye gusto, "was an echo of the spy thrillers by William Le Queux, who had filled my boyhood with the romance of international intrigue...