D1.8.62: [Untitled]

D1.8.62: [Untitled]

Newspaper Clippings

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 July 1866

Two cut-out columns of printed newsprint mounted on foolscap folio (warped).

War (likelihood of a Prussian-Austrian war), Bismarck Ministry (outcry to dismiss the)

Pressed clippings of Victorian current affairs opinion pieces by Wilhelm Bleek. The war would result in Prussian hegemony over the German states.

Van de Sandt de Villiers & Co.