WHY BISMARCK FELL.
LIGHT ON OLD STORY. By Telegraph— Association—Copyright Berlin, December 10. The Kaiser's specific reason for dismissing the late Prince Bismarck, says Professor Delbruck, one of the ablest and most vigorous personalities in Germany, in the course of an article in the press, was that the Emperor refused to sanction the Chancellor's plan to abolish the Reichstag and universal suffrage. "DROPPING THE PILOT." _ From the first, the Kaiser showed his intention to be his own chancellor, and it was this which brought about the quarrel with Bismarck, who could not endure to be less than all-powerful. The end came in 1890, when the Emperor required Bismarck to draw up a decree reversing a Cabinet order of Frederick William IV which gave the Prussian Minister-Presi-dent the right of being the sole means of communication between the other Ministers and the King. This Bismarck refused to do, and. he was, therefore, ordered to send in his resignation. The fall of the great statesman provided the subject of what is probably the best-known of Punch's cartoons, " Dropping the Pilot"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15481, 12 December 1913, Page 7
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