The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . ^, and had found many Germanprinces in trouble with their subjects, who weredemanding a share in the government, the rightof free speech, free newspapers, and trial byjury. The empires of Austria and Russia had 144 The Map of Europe 145. BISMARCK joined with the kingdom of Prussia in a com-bination which was known as the Holy AlU- The Holyance. This was meant to stop the further ^^^^f^^^spread of repubUcan ideas and to curb the peoplegrowing power of the common people. Not long after this, there came to the front 146 The Story of m^
The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . ^, and had found many Germanprinces in trouble with their subjects, who weredemanding a share in the government, the rightof free speech, free newspapers, and trial byjury. The empires of Austria and Russia had 144 The Map of Europe 145. BISMARCK joined with the kingdom of Prussia in a com-bination which was known as the Holy AlU- The Holyance. This was meant to stop the further ^^^^f^^^spread of repubUcan ideas and to curb the peoplegrowing power of the common people. Not long after this, there came to the front 146 The Story of m^Tof* Bismarck. in Prussia a remarkable man, who for the nextforty years was perhaps the most prominentstatesman in Europe. His full name was OttoEduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schonhausen,but we generally know him under the name ofHe was a Prussian nobleman, abeUever in the divine right of kings, the manwho more than anybody else is responsible forthe establishing of the present empire of Ger-many. He once made a speech in the PrussianDiet or council in which he said that ^bloodand iron, not speeches and treaties, wouldunite Germany into a nation. His one objectwas a united Germany, which should be thestrongest nation in Europe. He wanted Ger-many to be ruled by Prussia, Prussia to beruled by
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