Excerpt from The Two Chancellors: Prince Gortchakof and Prince Bismarck
During the last few years various highly interesting publications have revealed to the world many of the most hidden secrets of diplomacy. The historian is forced to collect these testimonies, and to extract from them their teachings; although conscience, as well as State reasons, cannot but condemn these much-to-be regretted revelations, which compromise, in so striking a degree, every principle of authority, and every law of international relationship.
The Author is therefore anxious to make known that, although he has given up his political career since 1873, he still considers himself bound by the obligations laid upon him by professional secrecy, and by the elementary rules of State service.
None of the documents or despatches quoted in this work possess the doubtful merit of being unpublished; all are public property, and the minute information which is given as to their various origins and dates, renders it easy for them to be found in the works and Parliamentary papers indicated.
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