Kevin Lopez (on sabbatical)’s Reviews > The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity: 1812-1822 > Status Update
Kevin Lopez (on sabbatical)
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“The Confederation of Germany ... resulted therefore in a separation of powers so meticulously contrived that no central organ possessed any authority at all ... [due to Metternich’s reactionary policy] the opportunity was missed to create a German Confederation which might well have been liberal, civilised and humane; the unity of Germany could thereafter only be forged by blood and iron.”
— Aug 14, 2020 10:46AM
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Kevin Lopez (on sabbatical)
is on page 166 of 320
“However much one may esteem Castlereagh’s courage and honesty of purpose, however much one may admire the brilliance of Talleyrand’s intellect, it is impossible to [assess their actions at Vienna] in a sense flattering to either.
Success is never, either in diplomacy or in foreign policy, an ultimate justification.”
— Aug 06, 2020 09:32AM
Success is never, either in diplomacy or in foreign policy, an ultimate justification.”
Kevin Lopez (on sabbatical)
is on page 20 of 320
“Nobody who has not watched ‘policy’ expressing itself in the day to day action can realise how seldom is the course of events determined by deliberately planned purpose or how often what in retrospect appears to have been a fully conscious intention was at the time governed and directed by that most potent of all factors,—‘the chain of circumstance.’”
— Aug 01, 2020 09:41AM
