The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-02
THE NEW DIPLOMACY.
It is to Laugh, as Practiced by Bis

It is to Laugh, as Practiced by Bis
 marck Against England.
 An old Prussian officer has sent to
 the Kreuz Zeitung a sheet from his di-
 ary, dated April 22, 1864, when he was
 ordered to accompany the late Prince
 Bismarck on his visit to the battle-
 field at Duppel I quote the following
 passages:
 Minister von Bismarck who was in excellent spirits, spoke of the power of England, which was at that time un-
 pleasantly patronizing. He related the
 following delightful story: During the
 cannonading of Duppel by the Prus- sians, the English Foreign Minister, Lord John Russell was interpellated in the House of Lords by an honorable Lord on account of the cannonading of Sonderburg during the siege, in the streets of which were Danish batteries, and he was required to demand satisfac- tion from Prussia on account of this incident, which was contrary to interna- tional law. Lord John Russell promised that the question should be attended to. An English newspaper containing this interpolation was laid before me by one of my advisers, and I was curi- ous to see what would ensue. As a matter of fact there was soon presented a demand by Russell, in rather high handed tone, that we should justify this act of our siege artillery, was annoyed by the whole tone of both of the inter- pellation, and of the letter, and I did what in diplomatic usage was some thing quite new-namely, tore the let ter up and threw it into my large paper basket. For this country, with it's lit- tie handful of troops of the line, and it's on that account half-enforced policy on non-intervention, is a great power which only by it's continual old maids patronizing tone has acquired a certain degree of artificial influence. It must be restored to it's real importance again. What was expected came to pass, After some weeks, probably on further ques- tion, came a somewhat tanner letter of asking us to be so good as to answer the probably forgotten letter As this second letter went exactly the same way as the first-namely, into my wastepaper basket. I was really curi- ous to learn what attitude the British would take up towards this new kind of diplomacy But the result exceeded all my anticipations. When the Minister, Russell, was again, after some days, reminded of the interpella- ton by the already mentioned honorable Lord, he declared himself ready to an- swer him. and had the boldness to as- sure the House that he had received satisfactory explanations from Prussia The remarks added to this story by the Minister, in that hu norous manner of his, may be imagined by any one. He then related how the project had been ventilated in the Eng ish press of landing 5000 volunteers on he west coast of Denmark, and asked ne what we in the army would think If such an incursion I told him that vas sure was expressing the feelings If all my comrades when I wished that hese gentlemen might not only land, ,ut march as far as possible into the so that they might have an op- ,ortunity of seeing what Prussian in- antry could do. The minister laughed ind said that was also his opinion of he matter-The London Standard.