... be reformed without Austrian interference. Bismarck's political skill surfaced again when his diplomatic manoeuvres persuaded Emperor Napoleon III to remain neutral, playing on his want of land for France, and then by the signing of a treaty with Italy that would commit Austria to fighting on two front in the almost inevitable event of war. Bismarck then waited for a suitable pretext-a fault on ... only one job - to find an enemy (or a cause) against which all of the German States, north and south, could unite and be rallied. This enemy quickly turned out to be France; following the deci...

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