u cabinet que nous avons
la guerre."--_Thiers_, in the Chamber, July 15, 1870. For this line
of contention he was called an "unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,"
and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who
venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is
a blunder.

_ 217 Gleanings_, iv. p. 222.

M108 First Thoughts In England
M109 Mind Of The British Government
M110 The Storm Of War

_ 218 Gleanings_, iv. p. 197.

M111 Article In "Edinburgh Review"

219 To be found in _Gleanings_, iv. In republishing it, Mr. Gladstone
says, "This article is the only one ever written by me, which was
meant for the time to be in substance, as well as in form,
anonymous." That was in 1878. Three years later he contributed an
anonymous article, "The Conservative Collapse," to the _Fortnightly
Review_ (May 1880).

220 House of Lords, Feb. 14, 1871.

221 The stipulations "were politically absurd, and therefore in the long
run impossible." "The most inept conclusions of the peace of
Paris."--Bismarck, _Reflections_, ii. p. 114.

_ 222 Hansard_, May 6, 1856. See also May 24, 1855, and Aug. 3, 1855.

223 Bismarck, in his _Reflections_, takes credit to himself for having
come to an understanding with Russia on this question at the
outbreak of the Franco-German war.

M112 The Russian Circular

224 "The whole pith of the despatch was yours."--Granville to Mr.
Gladstone, Nov. 18, 1870.

M113 Bismark's Action

225 Bismarck's private opinion was this: "Gortchakoff is not carrying on
in this matter a real Russian policy (that is, one in the true
interests of Russia), but rather a policy of violent aggression.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty
and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the
case. If the people at St. Petersburg were clever they would not
make any declaration of the kind but would quietly build men-of-war
in the Black Sea and wait until they were questioned on the subject.
Then they might reply they knew nothing about it, but would make
inquiries and so let the matter drag on. That might continue for a
long time, and finally people would get accustomed to it."--Busch,
_Bismarck: Some Secret Pages of his History_, i. pp. 312-13.

226 Correspondence respe