The Supreme Indignity

Lord Salisbury, recalled how Britain had failed to support Denmark in 1864, when Prussia demanded that they repeal their new constitution for Schleswig-Holstein. Salisbury said that there was no greater indignity that for a foreign power to dictate a nation’s laws, and was ashamed that Britain had allowed Berlin to do so to Copenhagen.

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