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See also:COUNT HARRY KARL KURT EDUARD VON See also:ARNIM (1824-1881)
, See also:German diplomatist, was a member of one of the most numerous and most widely spread families of the Prussian See also:nobility
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He was See also:born in See also:Pomerania on the 3rd of See also:October 1824, and brought up by his See also:uncle Heinrich von See also:Arnim, who was Prussian See also:ambassador at See also:Paris and See also:foreign See also:minister from See also: It was then found that a considerable number of papers were missing from the Paris embassy, and on the 4th of October Arnim was arrested on the See also:charge of embezzling See also:state papers . This recourse to the criminal See also:law against a See also:man of his See also:rank, who had held one of the most important diplomatic posts, caused great astonishment . His See also:defence was that the papers were not See also:official, and he was acquitted on the charge of See also:embezzlement, but convicted of undue delay in restoring official papers and condemned to three months' imprisonment . On See also:appeal the See also:sentence was increased to nine months . Arnim avoided imprisonment by leaving the See also:country, and in 1875 published anonymously at See also:Zurich a pamphlet entitled " See also:Pro nihilo," in which he attempted to show that the attack on him was caused by Bismarck's See also:personal See also:jealousy . For this he was accused of See also:treason, insult to the emperor, and libelling Bismarck, and in his See also:absence condemned - to five years' penal See also:servitude . From his See also:exile in See also:Austria he published two more See also:pamphlets on the ecclesiastical policy of See also:Prussia, " Der Nunzius kommt!" (Vienna, 1878), and " Quid faciamus nos?" (ib . 1879) . He made repeated attempts, which were supported by his See also:family, to be allowed to return to See also:Germany in See also:order to take his trial afresh on the charge of treason; his See also:request had just been granted when he died on the 19th of May 1881 . In 1876 Bismarck carried an See also:amendment to the criminal See also:code making it an offence punishable with imprisonment or a See also:fine up to £250 for an official of the foreign See also:office to communicate to others official documents, or for an envoy to See also:act contrary to his instructions . These clauses are commonly spoken of in Germany as the "Arnim paragraphs." (J . W .
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