ISBN: 9781236011145

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 76 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purc… Plus…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 76 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: . . . would be either unfair to the Zollverein, or unacceptable to public opinion in Austria-Hungary. There is no common measure of taxation for the Slovack or Galician with his few wants on the one side, and on the other for the inhabitant of the Rhenish provinces and of Lower Saxony. Besides, I did not believe in the trustworthiness of the service on a great part of the Austrian frontier. Convinced of the impossibility of a customs-union, I had no hesitation in doing Count Rechberg the desired service in order to keep him in his post. When I set out for Biarritz on October 5, I felt quite secure that the King would stand by my vote; and even to this day I am not clear as to the motives that induced my colleagues--Charles von Bodelschwingh, the Minister of Finance, and Count Itzenplitz, the Minister of Commerce, and their free-trading spiritus rector Delbrtlck--to work on the King during my absence with such determination about a matter somewhat out of his province, so that through our refusal Rechbergs position was, as he had anticipated, shaken, and he was replaced as Foreign Minister by Mensdorff, who was in the first place Schmerlings candidate, until he was himself driven out of office by reactionary and Catholic influences. The King, firm as he was in domestic politics, allowed himself in that case to be influenced by the doctrine advocated by his wife--that popularity was the means of solving the German question. Herr von Thile wrote to me to Biarritz about a conference of members of the Foreign Office, and of the Ministry of Commerce, which was held on October 10, 1864: I found confirmed afresh in to-days conference what indeed has been long known, that experts, with all their special delicacy, which I gladly recognise, in their handling of the . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<