The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-20


quarrel between Count Won Arnim and Prince
Bismarck The Emperor has ordered the re-
trement of the Count from the diplomatic
service. This controversy arising at the time
OF the Church troubles in Germany has pro-
duced great excitement all over the Continent,
and may lead to serious results. The true
history of the difficulty is of course not
known, and will not be known, for the first
duty of diplomacy is to conceal in this gener-
alton what history will write in the next. But
there are many threads of narrative which we
pick up from the foreign journals that are not
without value. 44 stt eaea
After the treaty of peace with NJ. Theirs had
became imbued with the idea that he held in
his possession important information of which
| he considered it his duty to dispose with
the best advantage to himself In correspond
ing with his chief he appears to have
limited, from time to time, that inasmuch as
he had been instrumental in winning the
honors to his country he desired to reap some
OF the substantial rewards. His demands met
with cool reception. He had been but an
officer, he was informed, to carry out orders
from headquarters, and was not entitled to
special recognition. A disposition to remove
him from Paris irritated the Count, and when
he was appointed Minister to Turkey by some
means the tell-tale dispatches curionsly un-
masking the policy of Germany, and, fore
shadowing the ecclesiastical war that was sub
sequently to be waged, appeared in the public
prints. lt 8a nsr
How far the agents of Count Won Arnim
were responsible for the publication Of these
dispatches does not appear, but the
Count was Immediately assailed in
the most furious manner by the Ger
man official press and accused of not
only being in disaccord with the policy of the
German Empire on one of the most important
questions, but also with having committed a
gross breach of trust in giving to the world
information intended only for the diplomatic
eye. A despatch was at once sent to the
Ambassador expostulating with him on this
deviation from the diplomatic rules, but in the
meantime the Count had written a long letter
to DR.. Dollinger, of Munich, explanatory Of
his conduct and adhering to his right Of de-
fence against public defamation. Whatever
favor the German government may have
accorded to the dissenting canon for his
assistance towards carrying out the policy of
Bismarck during the Ecumenical Council as
recently developed, the fact of Count Won
Arnim explaining to him as o clerical instead of
to the Chancellor at Berlin will certainly widen
IL IL
Minister in Rome, and place DR.. Dollinger
in an unenviable position in Germany. As
will be seen, the result of it oil is that
the Count has been driven from the
diplomatic service of Germany; but it is as
certain that Bismarck will have to encounter
another shower of pamphlets on diplomacy,
as in the unfortunate case with General La
Marmora. In all his dealings with
Rome during the past eight years his
anti-papal notions have led him beyond the
bounds of discretion and the injustice Of
seeking to embroil the Italian Ministry the
Roman Catholic Church and Austria, in q
vital quarrel, so that he might the easier attack
the ecclesiastical power in his own country, is
now recoiling with unpleasant force upon
himself Hitherto his trouble with Count
Won Arnim has been kept within respectable
bounds by the interference OF members Of the
imperial family but if this mediation has
been withdrawn Won Arnim will undoubtedly
publish more sIght" than La Marmora ever
possessed. nn &c
The Count publishes letter indicating
his conduct. He protests that the letters
which he wrote from Rome, first printed
In the Vienna Presse, were published en-
tirely without his knowledge. He further
more strongly complains Of the publication Of
his confidential report, dated May IA, 1869,
by the North German Gazette, evidently under
official authorization, as opposed to the tradi-
TONS, not only of the Prussian, but Of every
diplomatic service. He admits the polemical
character Of his letter to DR. Dollinger as
directed against Prince Bismarck, but main
| tains that the controversy was forced upon
him. In other words, he has been forced into
his present attitude by the resolution Of
Bismarck to drive him out OF the service Of
the Emperor. He intimates in this letter that
he will make further disclosures. We should
think, after the publication Of the Italian cor
respondence about Bismarck that the one
thing about which he would care nothing
would be disclosures Bismarck has been
compelled in dealing with events to say and
do many things which would not read well on
the cold pages of history. But this has been
no more his fate than it was the fate of
Napoleon and Palmerston and Talleyrand
and other men who dealt largely with the
affairs Of nations. What the world wants
from these men is accomplished events; and
the unifcation of Germany, which the genius
Of Bismarck hos done so much to complete,
will be his forgiveness in the eyes Of Germany,
no matter what disclosures may be made by
| Count Won Arnim. NJ. & .''.'..