Things I Remember the Recollections of a Political Writer in the Capitals of Eu
Things I Remember the Recollections of a Political Writer in the Capitals of Eu
Sidney Whitman
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Think of the number of poor devils in prison for the crime of lese majeste, not one instance of which has he ever pardoned; whilst there is not a case of a man having killed his opponent in a duel, however disgraceful might 182 The German Press have been its cause, whom he has not pardoned or at least remitted the sentence. Never has a monarch encouraged Byzantine servility to such a degree as this man. No sunbeam but it must radiate from him ; no incense but it must fill his nostrils. He monop...olises everything. " To the stranger a remarkable feature of that particular time was the number of patriotic meetings, dinners and festivals, accompanied by extravagant glorifications of the House of Hohen- zollern, reported in certain newspapers. But among people in a position which would have made their prosecution inconvenient you hardly ever heard a good word said of the Emperor. The scurrilous Munich Simplicissimus lampooned him as a hare running a race with his uncle. King Edward, depicted as a hedgehog, in which the hedgehog wins.
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