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Identifier: europesince00haze (find matches)
Title: Europe since 1815
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Hazen, Charles Downer, 1868-
Subjects: Europe -- History 1789-1900
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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THE GERMAN CONFEDERATION 31 was no king or emperor of Germany. There was no German flag. No one was, properly speaking, a German citizen. He Germany was a Prussian, or Austrian, or Bavarian citizen, as the ^^^ * nation,case might be. The federal government had no diplomatic representatives in the other countries of Europe, but eachstate had, or could have, its own diplomatic corps. TheGerman as German had no legal standing abroad,—only asa citizen of a separate state that might, but generally didnot, command respect. Each state had the right to makealliances of every kind with the others or with non-Germanstates. The only serious obligation they assumed towardeach other was that they should enter into no engagementthat should be directed against the safety of the Confedera-tion or that of any individual state within the union; thatthey should not make war upon each other upon any pretext,but should submit their contentions to the Diet; that if theConfederation should declare war, al

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