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Excerpt from Bismarck, the Man the Statesman, Vol. 2: Being the Reflections and Reminiscences of Otto, Prince Von Bismarck
MY successor at Paris was Count Robert von der Goltz, who had been since 185 5 ambassador at Athens, Constan tinople, and St. Petersburg. My expectation that office would have disciplined him, that the transition from liter ary to business activity would have made him more sober and practical, and that the summons to what was then the most important post in Prussian diplomacy would have gratified his ambition, was not to be immediately or fully realised. At the end of the year 1863 I found myself obliged to have a written explanation with him, the whole of which is unfortunately no longer in my posses sion of his letter of December 22, which was the imme diate occasion of the correspondence, only a fragment remains, and in the copy of my reply the beginning is missing. But even so this document has its value as a sketch of the situation at the time, and as illustrating the development that proceeded from it.
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