Three Peace Congresses of the Nineteenth Century
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Turkey, indeed, was unfortunate in her spokesmen — "a Greek, a renegade, and an imbecile," Bismarck rudely characterized them — but it made little diflFerence, for they had been sijmmoned to the Congress only to sign away provinces. M. Waddington and Count Corti, the first plenipotentiaries of France and Italy respectively, earned general respect and confidence by their reasonableness, tact, and a perhaps undiplomatic honesty. A much more important r61e was reserved for Count Andrassy, the Aust...rian foreign minister: a striking figure with his scarlet uniform, his sparkling black eyes, hair curling about his face, upturned mustache, and the general appearance of a gay hussar; but also an eloqiient speaker, a clever tactician, and Digitized by VjOOQIC j M i THE CONGRESS OF BERLIN 55 a master of the more occult arts of diplomacy. The leading antagonists in the impending battles, how- ever, were the representatives of Russia and Eng- land. The first plenipotentiary of Russia was the octogenarian chancellor, Prince Gorchakov — bent, thin, so feeble that he had to be carried into the hall of sessions, but still preserving the courage and dexterity, the exquisite grace and distinction, the command of polished and sonorous phrases, the high-flown and somewhat theatrical eloquence, to which he owed his great reputation.
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Turkey, indeed, was unfortunate in her spokesmen — "a Greek, a renegade, and an imbecile," Bismarck rudely characterized them — but it made little diflFerence, for they had been sijmmoned to the Congress only to sign away provinces. M. Waddington and Count Corti, the first plenipotentiaries of France and Italy respectively, earned general respect and confidence by their reasonableness, tact, and a perhaps undiplomatic honesty. A much more important r61e was reserved for Count Andrassy, the Aust...rian foreign minister: a striking figure with his scarlet uniform, his sparkling black eyes, hair curling about his face, upturned mustache, and the general appearance of a gay hussar; but also an eloqiient speaker, a clever tactician, and Digitized by VjOOQIC j M i THE CONGRESS OF BERLIN 55 a master of the more occult arts of diplomacy. The leading antagonists in the impending battles, how- ever, were the representatives of Russia and Eng- land. The first plenipotentiary of Russia was the octogenarian chancellor, Prince Gorchakov — bent, thin, so feeble that he had to be carried into the hall of sessions, but still preserving the courage and dexterity, the exquisite grace and distinction, the command of polished and sonorous phrases, the high-flown and somewhat theatrical eloquence, to which he owed his great reputation.
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