Untitled (likelihood of a Prussian-Austrian War) (the unpopularity of the Bismarck Ministry)

Untitled (likelihood of a Prussian-Austrian War) (the unpopularity of the Bismarck Ministry)

Publications & Reports

Bleek discusses German affairs, covering the likelihood of a Prussian-Austrian war (14 June - 22 July 1866) for dominance over the German states, with Prussia and Italy unified against Austria, and the domestic outcry to dismiss the Bismarck Ministry for provoking Austria as an eleventh-hour power grab. He likens the Bismarck Party's behaviour to the American Confederates. Even a Prussian victory will produce misery. Should Catholic Austria defeat Protestant Prussia, it would hand Prussians over to a retrogressive and despotic regime. A recent attempt on Bismarck's life has further endeared him to Wilhelm I, and his late-stage dismissal would reverse nothing.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

19/07/1866

Two cut out columns of newsprint text, positioned vertically parallel, pasted onto a plus-sized A4 unlined sheet with visible warping. No title was subsequently handwritten onto the mount/paper backing.