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BISMARCK'S HABITS "With our gradual realisation that Hitlerjsm is largely the old Prussianism with modern side trimmings, Prince Bismarck is re-ap-pearing in the news," says the Zenlandia, the Roman Catholic patter. "Bismarck's methods oiler a curious parallel to those of his successor. Having prepared the ground, lie tricked Austria into a disastrous war,, invaded 'Denmark, and, by forging the Ems telegram, forced the 1870 war on France at his own moment. "In personal habits, however, this first maker of modern Germany differed vastly from the present. He was a tremendous eater and drinker. He himself declared that he drank two or three beer g lasses of the strongest port to set his blood coursing before presiding at council meetings. He also insisted that 'a man cannot die before he has smoked 100,000 cigars and drunk 5000 bottles of champagne."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 209, 6 September 1940, Page 3
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141DRUNKEN GLUTTON Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 209, 6 September 1940, Page 3
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