A hundred years ago
The Paris correspondent of the Times forwards a curious list of the names circulated in 1848 from the Central Police Office of Berlin as those of men politically dangerous and suspicious. Among them are Mazzini, the deceased Radical prophet; James Fazy, subsequently for seventeen years Dictator of Geneva, and in policy a Caesarist; Karl Marx, now head of the International; Louis Blanc, now philanthropic Member of the Chamber; Herr Bluntschli, Heidelberg professor and devotee of Prince Bismarck's ideas; Herr Bucher, permanent Head of the German Foreign Office, and Prince Bismarck's best servant; Count Karolyi, Austrian Ambassador in Berlin; and M. Bratiano, Prime Minister of Roumania, and though an unscrupulous politician, certainly no agitator. Mazzini and Karl Marx are the only two names about Which the police showed any foresight at all, and of these two, the first held views as to the fitting destiny of his peninsula which are now part of the public law of Europe, while his country is ruled by a man bred in his ideas. Herr Bluntschli a Bismarckian, Herr Bucher a permanent Official, S. Cairoli a Premier! — verily, Time must have a pleasure in jeering the Political police.
Spectator, 23 November 1878
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