BISMARCK'S POWER.

Otago Witness, Issue 1320, 17 March 1877, Page 21

BISMARCK'S POWER.

The following are extracts from a leading editorial in the London Times, and which were published at a time when an immediate European war appeared inevitable :— The rulers of Turkey have, we fear, made up then- minds not to. yield, much more, and the Russian Court may soon be at the mercy of the storm which it has helped to raise. But it i* not : too late to keep back , Russia • and if any country can thus save the world from a tremendous war it is Germany. She has the power to compel the acceptance of at least a truce, and it depends on Prince Bismarck whether that power will be used. One plain 4 word from him would strap Russia even on the,brink of the abyss into which a very Jittle, more pressure would/, make her plunge, i Let, Aim only ,'aay. that .Germany will not permit Russia to plant herself on the Danube, and the Czar will find.abme means, in the -vast resources of his despotic power, 1 to stop the rush ot Slavonic enthusiasm whicn is carrying him and the whole world to war. Let Prince Bismarck' only speak, and there will be^ an end of Russian resolutions to occupy Bulgaria. Prince Bismarck's political genius and' the military iriumphs of his country have given him an influence inferior only to that which JN apoleon exercised on the morrow of Auster* htz and Jena. By a single 1 word he may save Europe from calamities compared with which those of all his own wars would seem slight; and his responsibility is aavastaa bis power. - ■ - * - t