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The Crown Prince, Clemenceau and the Congo

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Höbelt L., Garrigues J.
Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století. / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
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2023
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vol. 15
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issue 2
7-23
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Crown Prince Rudolph’s contacts with Georges Clemenceau, the French Radical Party politician (and much later wartime Prime Minister), have often been interpreted as a sign of acute dissatisfaction with Austria-Hungary's German alliance. However, a closer look at Rudolph’s correspondence with the man who established these contacts, Vienna journalist Moritz Szeps, clearly shows that Rudolph was primarily concerned to further the plans of his father-inlaw, King Leopold II of Belgium. Leopold desperately needed the French government’s permission to launch a lottery loan for his Congo Free State on the Paris stock exchange. In 1886–7, Clemenceau seemed a good choice to bring that result about. Moreover, contrary to his later reputation, Clemenceau and the Radicals were at that time opposed to a Russian alliance. Thus, they were not regarded as a force that was particularly dangerous for the Austro-German alliance.
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