Autobiography and Memoirs
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ISBN13: 9780217334563
Paperback|9780217334563
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XXIX 1856-57 SYMPATHY WITH THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT?VISIT OF MBS. STOWE TO ENGLAND AND TO INVERARAY? DIFFICULTY WITH CHINA?GENERAL ELECTION Horizons wholly new of political thought and action were now about to open on Europe and the world. And it is a curious circumstance that the curtain which as yet concealed them had its fringe first lifted by the same small group of men whose official duty it was to wind up the transactions of the epoch that had gone before. The Plenipotentiaries of the European Powers who had met in Paris had signed the treaty of peace on the 30th March, 1856, but the formal exchange of ratifications did not take place for nearly a month later?till the 27th of April. This period of a month spent in Paris they put to a very singular use?namely, that of discussing various questions of difficulty in the foreign politics of Europe, which had nothing to do with the Crimean War or with the Eastern Question, and with which, so far as was known, they had received no instructions from their Governments to meddle at all. The initiative in this, apparently gratuitous, undertaking was assumed by the French Plenipotentiary Walewski, on the 8th of April, in a well-considered and judicious speech, suggesting that, as it so happened that Europe was assembled in a Congress on a particular subject, it might be wise to take the opportunity of trying whether on some other subjects something mightnot be done for the future peace of Europe, seeing that the horizon was by no means free from clouds. I have no recollection that any such enlargement of his powers was ever given to Clarendon by consent of the Cabinet, but I have little doubt that it was agreed to by Palmerston in private communication with the French Emperor, through Clarendon. There was only one...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217334563 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217334563 |
| Weight | 1.41 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.97 In |
| List Price | $27.74 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 438 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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