Letter

d’Affaires to To the President of the Ministry of State, Prince von Bismarck, December 28, 1872

Author

d’Affaires

Recipient

To the President of the Ministry of State, Prince von Bismarck

Date

December 28, 1872

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 126. Mr. Bliss to Mr. Fish.

American Legation, Berlin, December 28, 1872. (Rec’d January 18, 1873.)

No. 440.]

Sir: I send herewith the text of the decree of the Emperor relieving Prince Bismarck from the presidency of the Prussian ministry, and transferring the duty of the presiding to the “senior minister;” also, the text of the notification of the change to Parliament by Prince Bismarck, stating that Count von Boon will accordingly, from date, assume the presidency.

I also append an article of the semi-official organ, the “Provincial Correspondenz,” which interprets, it is supposed, authoritatively, the meaning of the change. It must be admitted that the measure is one that, without interpretation, would not explain itself, and that, even thus elucidated, leaves the construction of the Prussian ministry anomalous.

I am, &c.,

ALEXANDER BLISS.
Chargé d’Affaires.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.