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Game. It is a cliché by now that the U.S. has its own Metternich in Henry Kissinger, and that the makings of a 19th century-style balance of power are present in that five-sided world-the U.S., Western Europe, Japan, the Soviet Union and China-that so fascinates President Nixon. But the world is much more complex than it was when Europe's aristocratic diplomats invented "the game of nations" 200 years ago. The five "powers" are by no means equally balanced, equally willing or able to play the game. Example: the dueling between West Germany...
Lola ruled Ludwig's kingdom as well as his imagination, and to the dismay of Prince Metternich, the Austrian archconservative who was master of Europe between the two Napoleons, her rule was quite liberal-she harassed the Jesuits and introduced the Code Napoleon. In 1847 Metternich offered Lola $250,000 if she would quietly go away; Lola threw the money in his emissary's face. Then Metternich organized a student riot, and Lola fell into his trap. Haughtily, she got Ludwig to close the university. The students rioted again, and now the riot was swollen by thousands...
Vienna-born Historian Walter Maass is especially intriguing on the Dollfuss assassination, partly because he lived through it all as a young adult. Maass finds it hard to capture the personality of his diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.) "Milli-Metternich." But he shows effectively how Dollfuss forced his "Christian corporate state" too suddenly into a totalitarian mold, basing his power on a single official party while socialists plotted on the left and Austrian Nazis on the right. Maass also demonstrates the appalling lack of official reaction when the government learned of the plot to overthrow it in July 1934. Austria...
HENRY KISSINGER. How is it possible to have another Metternich appear in this present day? This man has his characteristics. He is a man with whom we can argue...
...clearly comfortable ir his new role. Ever since he wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Metternich, he has admired statesmen who combined a cul tivated life-style with the shrewd exercise of diplomacy. Kissinger is trying to revive some of the bygone elegance of public life; grimness is for the ideologues and zealots who haven't made the world such a troubled place to live...